[OtomotO]

They are a monopoly in certain regions of the world.

Even though I live in a western country, just one of my clients after all these years of being self-employed, uses GitHub.

Nobody else would ever use it. And why would they? Especially for proprietary applications.

[CalRobert]

That's interesting, I get pushback when I suggest anything different and for devs under 30 I've had to remind them that git and github aren't the same thing. This is not to cast aspersions on them, just the state of things in the places I've worked.

Microsoft seems to be running the classic embrace, extend, extinguish playbook on github/git though. When it becomes impractical to join a team's workflow without github specific tooling then everyone will be forced to use gh.