Well, for what little it's worth, you've convinced me to give sourcehut a try for a personal project where any of these shortcomings should not pose a problem.

You leave me thinking you actually give a shit about not leaving the average person behind and that ease of use is a priority. So if you can eventually couple the simplicity and performance you already have with slight changes to make the UI at least as obvious as GitHub to both programmers and students, then that's a winner. Just subscribed in hopes to seeing that happen.