From a company/integration on the marketplace, the marketplace has been great in terms of building awareness and exposure. Can confidently say that we've been able to reach new users and customers that we wouldn't have otherwise had if we weren't on the marketplace.
From the perspective of a GitHub user/team, lots of teams prefer to consolidate everything together on a single invoice. If you're using GitHub for software development, you're almost certainly going to need a CI/CD tool and PM tool, so why not bring everything together on a single bill?
Potentially, your company might have a GitHub account you're allowed to add services to, but the finance department is less keen on new accounts. It also provides a well known company to complain to instead of yet another small vendor. Things enterprisey type customers tend to like. Manifold - https://www.manifold.co/ - is another player in this space.
And looking deeper into Github Marketplace pricing, I can see that Github takes a 25% cut (https://developer.github.com/apps/adding-integrations/managi...).
What is the benefit of getting anything via the Github marketplace that can be subscribed to outside of the marketplace ? What justifies that 25% cut appart from having a listing of apps ?