There is a problem when the choice creates confusion and randomness. Not that projects used the main/master branch consistently... In some it is the development

There is a problem when the choice creates confusion and randomness. Not that projects used the main/master branch consistently... In some it is the development branch. In others, it is the stable branch. And the default branch you get upon cloning the repo is something else still (one of those, or something else entirely). With git supporting different workflow styles, it would be hard to demand consistency. But a little consistency would be nice. When I archive repos from Github, I keep track of which branch the API says is default. Otherwise there might be no way to figure it out in the future!