"why do those evil ivory tower programmers yada yada" does the following thing: It will create an atmosphere in which it is NOT OKAY to just solve a problem for yourself and make it available. You always have to have a *product* ready. There are orders of magnitude of effort between those. 2/
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That said, Github should NOT provide a way to download anything at all imo, because it blurs the line between an internal tool and 3/
Honestly, I would wholeheartedly agree if I hadn't time and time again seen the situation play out where 4/
Tl;dr please make sure there was the promise of a product before treating it like one, otherwise agreed