I think Github's response was about as good as it could be. In hindsight, they probably should have contacted CocoaPods when they pegged one CPU. And they could have given the same general solution to Homebrew and others.

With respect to CocoaPods, I would hope someone on the team had thought through performance characteristics of their architecture.

It's like they brought a shopping cart onto a city bus and were then surprised that it inconvenienced the bus driver and the other passengers.