Is this a result of too much activity on GitHub (AI-driven jump in repos), though, rather than a fall?

SO a company Github's size can't handle the slop they invested a lot to enable and this is not a failure? I mean if the market moves and you cannot move with it, what do we call it?

Mostly it seems like greatly increased usage pushing their systems to the limit.

Ahhh okay. They've definitely had some growing pains. By "fall from grace", I assumed you meant some sort of ethical/trust failure.

That too, ever since they decided everything on GitHub was fair game for training AI without respecting its license.

Of course, cursor is going to be even worse than github in that realm.

Github has lost trust. This wasn’t an isolated incident.