I just noticed that yesterday ... and I think it's a bad idea. One of the great benefits of the original SF and, until now, GitHub was the ability to discover

I just noticed that yesterday ... and I think it's a bad idea. One of the great benefits of the original SF and, until now, GitHub was the ability to discover OSS software. I often knew what I was looking for but had absolutely no idea what the project was named (and on Github it was already a bit harder since you'd find multiple forks of the same project. Since I commit and fetch repository data using SSH and a private key, I rarely (if ever) log into the GitHub UI I guess I see only down-sides from a user perspective - what are the upsides for GitHub? Tracking?