[ Disclaimer: I am affliated with SourceHut. ] No one was born with knowledge of how to use GitHub. As someone who frequently uses both GitHub and email, noobs are no stranger to either platform. Many of us just don't remember very well our first few crappy GitHub pull requests, from before we really understood the workflow.
If you appeal to popularity as the ultimate decider, then novel approaches can never succeed. It's a defeatist attitude, and I reject it outright.
