I feel bad for ZenHub. The new GitHub Projects is good enough that you can stop using ZenHub and not miss much. I think GitHub just killed their business. I love they cross project status automation they built. That's one of their killer features.
Completely agree. Using GH actions for this is really verbose and clunky, and makes you rely on too many third-parties.
The other annoying thing about the “simple” method is that it’s also outside of your repo. So that configuration isn’t versioned, it isn’t really present anywhere. Your actions code, clunky as it is, is still code.
Simple and code-driven shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.