Right after Microsoft bought them, github got better, and started implementing long-requested features. (The open letter "dear github" or whatever was that was posted right before the takeover.)

This is something more recent.

Yes, remember how copying anything from the code view would also copy the line numbers? It was a relatively small CSS fix, but took years!

I never quite understood why this didn't get fixed before by the way, because it really wasn't that hard. Usually when $big_corp takes over $small_outfit things get worse instead of better, due to overbearing $big_corp policy, culture clashes, leadership not really understanding what they bought, and things like that.

Whatever else can be said about Microsoft: in the year or two after they took over GitHub lots of things – small and large – got fixed or improved.

big companies don't do anything fast

it's a car crash in extremely slow motion