While I understand and agree to the solution you provide, I would dare to call it a workaround. Since Github default culture is to use issues in a certain way,

While I understand and agree to the solution you provide, I would dare to call it a workaround. Since Github default culture is to use issues in a certain way, in which the maintainers are actually the bottleneck, most people will keep using it thinking it's the standard and correct way to do it. Unrelated to the above, you mentioned the paid extra feature, I really wish to see this implemented in a source forge to see how it goes.