Refactor/naming and code quality improvements

[THOR300]

Description

• Naming improvements in some of the ci files.
• There are then some refactoring changes due to trunk now running in the vscode window.

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How Has This Been Tested?

The changes will be tested by the test publish flow in CI and the new test that checks that the placeholder is 0.0.0.

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