Impossible to distinguish "Skipped" from "Fail" steps for workflows with branch protection rules

[kieren-harvey-shell]

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Why are steps that are skipped due to branch protection marked as fail?
Could they be marked as "Skipped - Branch Protection" (or similar)?

e.g. our workflow has stages for dev/qa/uat & prod.
For our "approved" branches, we are allowed to deploy to dev/qa/uat & prod.
Our "develop" branch can only deploy to "dev", but others are skipped due to Environment protection.

It would be nice if we could see the workflows are running as intended without having to configure specific actions for branches.

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[kieren-harvey-shell]

Could we request a feature to specify how steps should be reported when they are skipped due to branch protection?
Default: current behaviour: fail

So all existing scenarios continue to work "as is".

However, if you're not constrained by other CI/CD tools and don't want to (nor should you have to) write a whole bunch of scripts to get the most out of the branch protection feature, then a simple configuration here could be handy.

Bare in-mind thee are reported in all PR check as well so it would be nice to be able to classify actual failure vs skipped.