Comment by a2ff6eeb0

Unfortunately there isn't as much money to be made¹² serving people who just want a stable host for basic repos. The money comes from the paid accounts, and those do tend to want the extra features - even if the end users don't the management agreeing to the spend will see value in the integration³ of other parts of the development/release/support processes. The problem is they all want a different mix of features, meaning that the feature set needs to be wide to capture as much interest as possible especially in light of competitors that may offer something you don't (yet).

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[1] Possibly none, are you paying for a pro or enterprise account?

[2] There will be a little indirect income perhaps, via deriving value from tracking users and being able to use the combined content for various analytics (including lately AI training).

[3] Potentially reducing the cost/complexity of integrating disparate systems⁴, themselves.

[4] Sometimes in-house developed systems that might distract key devs from the company's products/services that they can sell.