>I give it five years before the GH CLI is the only way to interact with GitHub repos.
I do not doubt this, already it seems to be a pain to deal with some repos on github without using gh. I do not know what gh buys you but I have never used it so I do not know if it is "better". To me the standard git commands are fine. But yes, I think the trend to forcing gh upon us is already being done.
I do use a command-line program as the only way to interact with GitHub (using the GitHub API), but I do not use GH CLI; I have my own implementation (which is much smaller than theirs). (They can see that I use my own, because of the User-Agent header, and they can also see what APIs are accessed.) (Git can also be used, but only for the functions of Git rather than the functions of GitHub.)
I do not doubt this, already it seems to be a pain to deal with some repos on github without using gh. I do not know what gh buys you but I have never used it so I do not know if it is "better". To me the standard git commands are fine. But yes, I think the trend to forcing gh upon us is already being done.