GitHub also arguably just has a good product that's a good fit for a lot of use-cases, regardless of if there's better options. Yeah, you might be able to self

GitHub also arguably just has a good product that's a good fit for a lot of use-cases, regardless of if there's better options. Yeah, you might be able to self-host gitlab/gitea/etc but their free offering for organizations is so good that for my 30 commits/week open source project, I can deal with half an hour of downtime once in a while. Combined with free hosting, it's really not that much of a stretch that people are willing to put up with this, especially as there have been periods of time with less outages before, though that's been a while now.