GitHub cares. GitHub cares about active users on their platform. Whether it's managing PRs, doing code reviews, or checking the logs of another failed action.
They don’t care about things that I care about, including everything the author talked about, and also things like allowing whitespace-ignore on diffs to be set on by default in a repo or per user - an issue that’s been open for half a decade now.
(Whitespace is just noise in a typescript repo with automatic formatting)
GitHub often actively doesn't act in situations where acting would be prudent, which portrays from an outside perspective a disinterest in those who give their time to document shortcomings. Would you care to guess when the last time that the GitHub API was updated? It's probably much longer than you'd think (2+ years at this point).
GitHub cares. GitHub cares about active users on their platform. Whether it's managing PRs, doing code reviews, or checking the logs of another failed action.