Many of us kept our trust rating for MS right around zero despite their "embrace of open source"; it seems we were correct in recognizing it as nothing more than a recognition of market realities packaged up as a marketing ploy.
Hostile UI, hostile business practices, hostile legal and growth endeavors
At this point i’m not hust distrusting MS i’m actively doing anything I can to support their demise
Presumably it is to prevent people discussing problems at length. I don't know any other reason they would do that.
It seems to go against how most other organizations use GitHub.
I use GitHub all the time but I never expected it to be mandatory if you wanted to publish a package for a popular open source language.
But as the top says, “If you are interested in helping with this work, please feel free to get started!” (Though only if you’re a contributor or open a duplicate issue)
We are just in the cycle on a modern platform. Heading out of phase 2 and into phase 3.