> Finding anything was detective work

And in recent years, how is the centralized world of websearch doing?

https://www.techspot.com/news/101560-study-confirms-search-r...

> Open source was successful, but not nearly at the same level it is now thanks to precisely platforms such as GitHub (and Launchpad, and Bitbucket, and Gitlab, etc) that added useful functionality such as bug trackers and project management on top of a version control system.

None of that depends on a centralized provider. I have all the features you listed on my self-hosted platform as well.