> aimed at someone in Microsoft who can influence this project

Hello. I'm the head of product for Actions. Thank you for the comments and we take all customer feedback seriously. I wanted to let you know that we are working on the "you cannot view logs of ongoing jobs" issue. We have also recently shipped a "force cancel" feature (available via API right now until we can build a UI -- https://github.blog/changelog/2023-09-21-github-actions-forc...)