> I'm not sure I would agree that the core reason in this case is "the acquisition"

Would data change your mind?

https://damrnelson.github.io/github-historical-uptime/

Playing devil's advocate: from the graph alone, it could just be that the status page became more accurate, so same amount of down time, but reported more now.

On the other hand, I don't remember things being this bad before the acquisition.

That is quite stark.

Whats the deal with the colors? Red and yellow don’t strictly seem to mean higher/lower. Some yellow dots are lower than red.