Maybe if everything you use is public-cloud-deployed.

Self-hosted runners help bridge the gap with on-prem servers, since you can pop a runner VM inside your infra and give it the connectivity/permissions to do deployments.

This announcement pisses me off, because it's not something related to abuse/recouping cost, since they could impose limits on free plans or whatever.

This will definitely influence me to ensure all builds/deployments are fully bash/powershell scripted without GH Action-specific steps. Actions are a bit of a dumpster fire anyway, so maybe I'll just go back to TeamCity like I used before Actions.