[sureIy]

I figure because they charge for minutes, I'm not saying that it actually turns a profit. My company also pays for certain "xl" machines.

[mdaniel]

Almost every company I know of is in love with self hosted, or 3rd party, runners because they can't reason about OIDC auth into their cloud, or it's more evil sibling VPN

I'm open to your suggestion but I struggle to get onboard that Microsoft thinks that CI compute billing is the future