No doubt the intent of this tool is to tightly couple your development flow to GitHub/Microsoft.
Makes switching to other vendors more painful further down the line.
Makes switching to other vendors more painful further down the line.
This utility does.
If you are uncomfortable with using GH to manage issues and PRs you shouldn't probably shouldn't be using GH.
It's open source [0], there's nothing stopping you hooking it up to Gitlab, or pointing it at jira.