But because you've got to this massively-forked scenario That may be true for the 0,0001% of projects that have so many contributors that they need dedicated r

But because you've got to this massively-forked scenario That may be true for the 0,0001% of projects that have so many contributors that they need dedicated release managers and such anyway. The remaining 99,9999% projects are just grateful for github making contribution so easy that they're now receiving patches at all.