Absolutely, and I genuinely hate that. But for new open source projects of mine the ease of contribution and user expectation of a github repository are a trad

Absolutely, and I genuinely hate that. But for new open source projects of mine the ease of contribution and user expectation of a github repository are a trade-off worth making even so (I also maintain a self hosted master git repo that I consider the source of truth to -me- but these days it syncs from, rather than to, github, just because of the trade-offs involved).