General cleanup of `Base` #321

Job	Run time
Test Processing	2m 41s
(linux/aarch64) Create Processing Build	7m 18s
(linux/x64) Create Processing Build	9m 2s
(macos/aarch64) Create Processing Build	3m 26s
(macos/x64) Create Processing Build	6m 29s
(windows/x64) Create Processing Build	14m 40s
	43m 36s

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