if github goes down you cannot merge prs etc, literally blocking "work" so this is a stretch

Not really true - Git is distributed, after all. During an outage once I just hosted my copy of a certain Git repo somewhere. You can always push the history back up to the golden copy when GitHub comes back.

i am not talking about git, i am talking about github. lets say i need to merge a PR in GH because use gha pipelines or what have you to deploy a prod fix. this would become severely blocked.

where as if openai goes down i can no longer use ai to generate a lame cover letter or whatever i was avoiding actually doing anyway, thats all

This is the realm of standard recovery planning though, isn't it? Like, your processes should be able to handle this, because it's routine: GitHub goes down at least once per month for long enough for them to declare an incident, per https://www.githubstatus.com/history . E.g. one should think carefully before depriving onself of the break-glass ability to do manually what those pipelines do automatically.

yes, we do have break glass procedures.

i guess my pedantic point is GH itself is central to many organizations, detached from git itself of course. I can only hope the same is NOT true for OpenAI but maybe there are novel workflows.

just to be clear i do not like github lol