Well, being open minded doesn’t mean you won’t reject something, just that you won’t reject something without mulling it over first. I’m sure their desire to not want to create account is not a flippant remark and a position they arrived at over time.

Another alternative, I’ve been looking at is radicle. It’s private repository stuff is rough, but public repository stuff, much less so. Seems to be early days but I really like what the project is doing.