It's not the only standard. It's just a centralized, single-point-of-failure, which is in some ways anathema to git in itself - which is meant to be distributed

It's not the only standard. It's just a centralized, single-point-of-failure, which is in some ways anathema to git in itself - which is meant to be distributed by default. A simple bare git repository can be had on any server and it's moderately easy to manage. There's sr.ht and Gitlab and on and on!