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No HTTPS for custom domains https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156#issuecomment-366... is the main one.

GitHub Pages is one of the highest causes for seeing TLS alerts for me.

You can use cloudflare to get SSL with a custom domain for your GitHub pages

https://gist.github.com/cvan/8630f847f579f90e0c014dc5199c337...

According to the latest comments and issues linked in that very issue, GitHub Pages has started slowly enabling HTTPS support for sites that have custom domains.

Firebase Static Hosting can do that and it's very easy, fast (Google's CDN) and free for up to 10 GB/month transfer.

IPv6 support, it would seem.

GitLab Pages offers no IPv6 support. GitHub doesn't support IPv6 for custom domains officially, but you can easily work around that by adding 2a04:4e42::403 as the AAAA record.

less dependence on GitHub, IMO - I'm open to arguments in their favor though, for sure

You just depend on Amazon instead

Unless you're hosting out of your basement you have to depend on someone. I'd rather depend on someone who makes their revenue from hosting websites.

Granted I pay for S3 hosting and Github...