> ran some super scientific Occam's Razor recursion algos There's probably some bias trying to justify your previous 3 points. You can host your own Gitea but

> ran some super scientific Occam's Razor recursion algos There's probably some bias trying to justify your previous 3 points. You can host your own Gitea but now you have the operational burden of maintaining your own Git server. For most businesses it makes more sense to go with a hosted solution and dedicate resources to creating business value. There are a lot of things I wish GitHub did differently but nothing really has changed since the announcement that MSFT was buying GitHub. If the announcement had never been made, no one would have thought anything had changed. Until recently (2 years or so) they were pretty slow to roll features but this changed once GitLab started seriously competing with them.