It's really hard to understand what you're trying to say here. I use actions a lot. There is no distinction between actions and CI/CD here. The context of this blog post is a set of features that were added to actions (during the beta!) to better support CI/CD workflows. There is no CI/CD "shortcut", like you say, bolted on to actions.
The alpha was rougher (and completely different) but that's why it was called an alpha!
The alpha was rougher (and completely different) but that's why it was called an alpha!