I typically use make for this and feel like I’m constantly clawing back scripts written in workflows that are hard to debug if they’re even runnable locally.
This isn’t only a problem with GitHub Actions though. I’ve run into it with every CI runner I’ve come across.
In many enterprise environments, deployment logic would be quite large for bash.
Personally, I have never found the Python as a task runners to be less code, more readable or maintainable.