Is there an out of the box way to hook into the timeout event to override the default message or change the behavior (exit() instead of fail ())? (Found nothing in the doc).. The main issue is that many actors don't use crawlee and they don't support resurrecting...

No, there is no event for the timeout. We discussed it but probably don't want to put it in (the SDK is already too large). What you can do is to programmatically check what it is and e.g. exit just before it happens

Thanks Lukas for the prompt reply.. I was looking for something native, but it looks like I'll have to do some plumbing - which I was trying to avoid 😆