The lack of issue templates has been clearly stated here and elsewhere. I personally brought it up with GH support, quite a long back, and I imagine others have

The lack of issue templates has been clearly stated here and elsewhere. I personally brought it up with GH support, quite a long back, and I imagine others have done the same. It seems clear that GH does not want to change this. There's another issue that has received less discussion: people reporting issues get an enormously complex webpage to look at. The top of the page has about 10 ex spaces that is mostly blank, and the text that is there is not germane to issue-reporting. GH is a for-profit company and it could benefit from dropping their adherence to their overall UI [1] and set up a more modal UI for issues. That UI should be clean, with a high ratio of text to whitespace, and it should show nothing extraneous to the goal. And of course it should display the developer's how to submit an issue text ... that's just so obvious that everyone commenting here (and in 'dear github' etc) has a right to feel insulted by GH.