Reduce factory unit test flakiness, fix workflow deprecation warning #185

Job	Run time
CI / Get Changed Files / Get Changed Files	4s
CI / Changed Files Debug Output	1s
CI / Pre-Commit / Pre-Commit	2m 15s
CI / Python Package	0s
CI / Docs / Docs	1m 36s
CI / Test / Linux (3.9, 3006.8)	20m 49s
CI / Test / macOS (3.9, 3006.8)	1m 9s
CI / Test / Linux (3.9, 3007.1)	21m 2s
CI / Test / Windows (3.8, 3006.8)	3m 17s
CI / Test / Linux (3.10, 3006.8)	20m 3s
CI / Test / macOS (3.10, 3007.1)	1m 2s
CI / Test / Windows (3.8, 3007.1)	3m 22s
CI / Test / Linux (3.10, 3007.1)	20m 46s
CI / Test / Linux (3.8, 3006.8)	20m 29s
CI / Deploy Python Package (Test PyPI)	0s
CI / Deploy Python Package (PyPI)	0s
CI / Set the CI Pipeline Exit Status	9s
	1h 56m 4s

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