Yeah, I'm one of those people who seems to consistently have middling-to-bad experiences with Git hooks (and Git hook managers). I think the bigger issue is that even with consistent developer tooling between both developer machines and CI, you still have the issue where CI needs to do a lot more stuff that local machines just can't/won't do (like matrix builds).

Those things are fundamentally remote and kind of annoying to debug, but GitHub could invest a lot more in reducing the frustration involved in getting a fast remote cycle set up.