> Maybe that's good-will doing the work?
Of course. GitHub has been an enormous gift to the open source community. Arguably more than Git itself. They deserve a lot of good will.
You're right, but that GitHub is dead.
Also, the former stewards of that open source goodness sold it to Microsoft for a cheap buck.
Any goodwill they earned has been spent.
they are not the non-profit. they make money of it and devs expect certain kind of service in return. GH failed to deliver on the service expectation.