Yeah, I didn't really like this post much. I agree the UI is bloated. But there's really two big factors here the post either ignores or doesn't empathize with, which I don't like:

1. The rise of Claude Code is what pushed this behavior, not GitHub and Microsoft's own actions. It is not because they shoved Copilot buttons everywhere, it is because a ton of people worldwide are autonomously pushing commits from Claude Code, and automated PRs/commits kicks off tons of other compute work that highly stresses a system that was never built for this scale.

2. The timeline is extremely compressed. Claude Code did not take off until late last Winter. So in one season they went from being able to mostly handle the volume of activity on their backend to an explosion of activity that shows no signs of slowing down. There is not a team on this planet earth who could foresee this circumstance and reimplement a massive distributed system like GitHub to handle the load gracefully in just a few short months. The writer of this post seems to think very highly of themselves as an engineer and my money is they would also be absolutely crushed by the nature of this challenge.