I never heard anyone gripe about it... not even once. The cost is pretty negligible, and there's a lot of halo benefit (i.e., you just get more people involved

I never heard anyone gripe about it... not even once. The cost is pretty negligible, and there's a lot of halo benefit (i.e., you just get more people involved on GitHub the platform itself). The fact that a lot of non-technical employees in marketing and other fields are using it for corporate blogs is actually a nice bit of pressure on the organization to make Pages and web editing even simpler for those users. It becomes harder to lean on "oh it's a developer site so they'll figure it out". Mostly, though, I think it's just a matter that we wanted it for ourselves. It's pretty awesome from an industry bystander's perspective to have something free, simple, and static, so we can all benefit from more stable docs, blogs, and so on. Maybe that'll change in the future and something Totally Different will change the industry, but for right now I think it's pretty rad, and totally worth the investment.