alt Hacker NewsNobody needed generic API tokens for PyPI either. Not now, not years ago.
The problem isn't a technical one. The problem is that when a company / government body hears that the "official way to do X is Y", they'll create an internal policy to do Y all the time, regardless of how evil or stupid Y is.
You just destroyed a public good by making a bunch of organizations require the use of GitHub and other MS trash for no technical reason. You are a lot worse than a real estate developer who paved over a community park to build a parking lot for some mega corp. If people saw you doing this in a movie, it would've been so cartoonishly evil, the audience would think the director jumped a shark, yet, real life appears to be worse than the portrayal of evil in art.
> Nobody needed generic API tokens for PyPI either. Not now, not years ago.
It was one of the most-requested features on PyPI, but OK.
The rest of this is just ranting. I think you should develop some more perspective on this, and observe that nobody else is even remotely as bent out of shape as you are over these changes. Which, again, aren't even close to mandatory (and couldn't be even if anybody wanted them to be, which nobody does).