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Is there any way to run `pulumi refresh` with a `plan`?

I want to show a nice textual preview of what `pulumi refresh` would do in some GHA workflow , and then apply it after an approval from a different person.

From engineering perspective, previewing a `refresh` and then applying it to the state should be even easier than previewing a pulumi `update` because it just involves updating the state file - but to my amazement there is no normal way to do it.

I tried fiddling with `json` output for `pulumi refresh` but I am not sure what this feature is good for:
1. It neither gives a nice textual diff / summary of what changed - so I have to parse it additionally to display it
2. It does not output the updated stack state which can be them simply manually uploaded using `stack import`.
Would love to get some assistance on this.

(P.S. `pulumi refresh --json` gives weird outputs - I don’t see deletions, and it shows same resources as updates, trying to fix that here: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/pull/16851>)