Lowendtalk providers who take 7$ per year deals can provide more reliability than Github at this moment and I am not kidding.

If anyone is using Github professionally and pays for github actions or any github product, respectfully, why?

You can switch to a VPS provider and self host gitea/forejo in less time than you might think and pay a fraction of a fraction than you might pay now.

The point becomes more moot because github is used by developers and devs are so so much more likely to be able to spin up a vps and run forejo and run terminal. I don't quite understand the point.

There are ways to run github actions in forejo as well iirc even on locally hosted which uses https://github.com/nektos/act under the hood.

People, the time where you spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and expected basic service and no service outage issues is over.

What you are gonna get is service outage issues and lock-ins. Also, your open source project is getting trained on by the parent company of the said git provider.

PS: But if you do end up using Gitea/forejo. Please donate to Codeberg/forejo/gitea (Gitea is a company tho whereas Codeberg is non profit). I think that donating 1k$ to Codeberg would be infinitely better than paying 10k$ or 100k$ worth to Github.