I currently use Gitea. I am interested in your opinion on why you prefer Forgejo to Gitea

I'm not OP but probably the licensing drama. Gitea is now open core if I remember correctly. Some details are available here[1]. I also used to run Gitea, but I don't any more. The open-source churn is getting tedious and difficult to keep up with.

[1]: https://blog.codeberg.org/codeberg-launches-forgejo.html