WP.org is not the easiest place to run a plugin, especially if your resources are limited and your project has a large - and largely low-tech-aware audience - the review system suchs, the forum is a shambles and the plugin review / security team and rather rude and prickly when you challenge them!

On the plus side, you can use some of the excellent features of GitHub actions - notable the 10Up deploy to wordpress.org script - to mitigate some of the pain and 90's feeling of deploying code via SVN!