Fail ansible play fast on concurrent async task failure - asynchronous

Question

I've got an ansible play (split across several included playbooks) which looks a bit like this:
- name: Build packer images
<snip>
register: packer_run
async: 2700 # 45 minutes
poll: 0
- name: Do other stuff
<snip>
...
- name: Check Packer build finished
async_status:
jid: "{{ packer_run.ansible_job_id }}"
register: packer_result
until: packer_result.finished
retries: 30 # allow 15 mins
delay: 30
Note the async task sets poll=0 to allow subsequent tasks to run concurrently. However even if the async task fails immediately, ansible only fails once it's finished the subsequent tasks and checks on the async task status. Which is really annoying because it can take ~30 minutes to find out that the async task failed 30s in to the run.
Is there a way to preserve the concurrent behaviour but have ansible fail as soon as the async task fails?
I guess the obvious answer is "don't do the concurrency with ansible" but as this is running in a github actions workflow (which doesn't allow concurrent steps) using this approach provides a reasonable workaround apart from this "slow failure" problem.

Answer 1

Even though 'Build packer images' task fails immediately, the status of the task is only checked when 'Check Packer build finished' is reached.
Or 'Build packer images' logs the status in some file and other tasks read that.
We can keep 'Check Packer build finished' whenever we need to check the status. Check it multiple time at different points in the playbook. In any case if no one is checking if the task is failed, will never get that info in ansible console.