Shameless plug: solving this "push and pray" problem is something we have been focusing on with Dagger. It's an open-source CI platform that decouples the runtime from the triggers. The runtime is open source and local-first, so you develop the actual logic of your pipelines with a proper dev loop. Then, you separately wire up your git triggers. The same pipeline logic can be triggered locally or from git events.

IMO this is the only clean way to solve the problem. If you want to check it out and share feedback: https://dagger.io . We also have a very active Discord server full of CI nerds.