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All any build toolkit is is automations over bash. You can make your own. GitHub integration need not be any more than the most trivial thing that works. Your coworkers, naturally, won't be disciplined enough to keep the integration trivial and will build super complicated crap that's realty hard to troubleshoot, because they can.
It is but 90% of this horizontal pressure is just nonsense. Not actual faults that need to be tolerated. Cooler heads stick around and solve the problems, but by the time that happens, the larger dev community has already moved on to something thoroughly crappier.
ASCII is perhaps a poor example, all modern tooling is UTF-8 capable.
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