I don't see why this is a bad thing. There is inherently less cognitive overhead to use something you are already familiar with. Same reason why people wouldn

I don't see why this is a bad thing. There is inherently less cognitive overhead to use something you are already familiar with. Same reason why people wouldn't give Bing the time of day. All things being equal, and you just had to choose a public place for a remote repo, Github should be your first choice unless you have a very good reason go use something else. I'd rather not, nor expect consumers of my code, to have to learn a completely different UI than what they are used to in order to use or contribute to my public repo.