Thanks for the clarification.

I agree with you on the token system. It was a pain to figure out.

I've actually run into issues with throttling and stale fetches before, but it was due to a company proxy intercepting all requests. So effectively our entire org was hitting GitHub through a small number of proxy gateway IPs. Happened with AWS APIs too -- major throttling issues with terraform that seemed to be triggered based on the shared IPs.

Might be a longshot, but I'd check to make sure you aren't going through some proxy or VPN because I don't think your experience is typical.