This is my question, and why not go a step further and just self host foregjo?

Forgejo is a single go binary and very fast.

You can script it using an API, you have full access to the database which can be sqlite3 or postgres.

Then you get all the benefits of an integrated issue tracker which has a great GUI for humans to review.

I really don't understand the raison-de-etre for beads other than yak shaving, and would really like to.