_Usually_ the blast radius isn't "GH is down globally across all functionality". So it can work for you while still being either down for other regions, or at least degraded.

Pushing commits over SSH is often the most "reliable" thing, though you can get some fun situations where a commit is pushed and runners never ran, causing downstream FUN eventually.

I’ve seen this behaviour but IMO it’s a fatal design flaw of Actions. It shouldn’t be possible.

I don't do that anymore, but I can still access repositories and issues. Looks normal to me