[hasenj]

It's more like the "edit file" feature where you can edit in-place on the github web interface directly.

It makes github a more complete "gui" for git.

To be honest I don't feel that this is the right approach. But I'm a technical user so who knows. But it feels like github is forking off to a different direction.

Probably trying to look more "inviting" to corporate users; companies where sales are determined by non-technical managerial users. I can easily imagine such types asking questions like: "I want to upload a file to my team's repo, how can I do that?".

It would make it way easier for non-technical users to mess up the repo with tons of binary files, like images, movies, word documents, and excel sheets.