well, GitHub isn't as "raw" as it used to be, that's for sure. It's much more user friendly now, much easier to make a single click and do what you need, like

well, GitHub isn't as "raw" as it used to be, that's for sure. It's much more user friendly now, much easier to make a single click and do what you need, like "copy to clipboard" or "download (a single file from a repo)" and so on. as things get easier to use, the coolness factor definitely goes down, and the pride you get from learning the tool goes down, because as things get easier to learn, the less special any given person is for learning that tool. There are software packages which intentionally remain complex to keep this feeling, and it's considered bad. From personal experience, if you want GitHub to feel like magic again, host an enterprise server instance on AWS and have over 10k active users. You will feel the complexity in your soul as you work out ways to monitor that thing effectively and react to problems before the symptoms get noticed by your extremely demanding users. I realize that very few people can do this, as GitHub Enterprise licenses are expensive, but hoo boy GitHub has not lost its magic for me.