[georgedrummond]

No doubt the intent of this tool is to tightly couple your development flow to GitHub/Microsoft.

Makes switching to other vendors more painful further down the line.

[algorithmsRcool]

I don't understand this mentality. Git itself doesn't provide a way to interact with PRs or issues on GitHub.

This utility does.

If you are uncomfortable with using GH to manage issues and PRs you shouldn't probably shouldn't be using GH.

[maccard]

That's a fairly cynical take. How is this any worse than offering an API?

It's open source [0], there's nothing stopping you hooking it up to Gitlab, or pointing it at jira.

[0] https://github.com/cli/cli