Besides what they mentioned in the blog post you also can't push to PR branches owned by organizations on GitHub without getting manually added to the fork repo.
Game development mostly relies on getting creative stuff implemented fast, not good. And if it works then it works, why spend any more time on it if you can implement even more cool ideas (or release it).
And Minecraft is one of the best examples for a game that is still paying for such a development style.
Yeah, I have JavaScript disabled by default with uMatrix and it's a pretty annoying trend that almost every second page — even a static one page site — needs JavaScript to display anything