Understood. I wasn't clear that I have no problem with being able to download a copy of the repository from as many pages/places as is reasonable, and there is

Understood. I wasn't clear that I have no problem with being able to download a copy of the repository from as many pages/places as is reasonable, and there is no need to change that. The specific top level complaint is about the releases page when visited by a human who would have the goal of building and installing the software release. There the "Source Code" link is misleading if the maintainer has a release file that is the expected one for building and installing the software.