Reading this, I can't come to a conclusion other than "git rapidly starts sucking balls for use cases outside of Linux development". Github started with ze_current_fastness but then ended up recurrently smashing into walls because of it.

They should have just failed to scale git and leave place for the less idiosyncratic bazaar or mercurial to take the lead. These were slower, but would probably have scaled much better in the long term.

Github's core innovation was re-centralizing a decentralized SCM (as per article) by giving it nice web UI and features such as PRs. Oh and also free code hosting space. None of which relied on git's peculiarities.