One thing I hate about the current state of affairs is that CIs use a ton of configuration file formats. Every single one wants to lock you in and make it painful to move to something else.

Any real world stats on how often that cascade is run to what degree and what how long it takes to complete certain tasks?

(a friend who barely achieves 150W on his ergo bike also asks about the typical energy footprint of the more trigger-happy CI implementations)