> But I somehow don't really recall anyone besides the Microsoft marketing department being overly excited about it

What you just saw 3 days ago was a hype driven unveiling of a cherry picked contraption by GitHub, OpenAI and Microsoft. Open source became the loser once again and got taken advantage of this clever trick and will soon become a paid service. (With lots of code that is under copyright of various authors.)

Anyone who critiqued the announcement three days ago was drowned out, downvoted and stamped on by the fanatics.

I wanted to see those who had access to it (Not GitHub or Microsoft fans) to demystify and VERIFY the claims rather than blindly trust it. Those suspicions by the skeptics were right, and lots of questions still remain unanswered.

Well done for re-centralising everything to GitHub. Again.