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Actually Github only recently gained one of the best features bitbucket has always had, which is a file explorer on the left in PRs. I have no idea how people could use Github without that.

Now one thing that Github has is integration. You get lots of stuff integrated for free where Atlassian offerings are separate products. And you don't have to configure much.

You can't compare Github to just bitbucket. You have to compare it to a combination of bitbucket, bamboo with Elastic agents and Jira. With a competent admin this is all easily set up and administered. And especially if you are a largish company Jira is the killer vs. Github issues. Especially if said company is somewhat process heavy which Jira is just the best at. So configurable and extensible. Of course a small startup or open source project will prefer the zero fuss Github.

And of course as devs we don't care much about those parts. But you did ask why they are still alive.

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* Quick overview of the "complexity" of the change. If I see a huge list of files or files "all over the place" that let's my spidey senses tingle. Much more so than a simple "X files changed" bit of text could. * Navigating around the changeset by most interesting area first. E.g. I might see at a glance that there are changes in three folders of interest and the rest are less important. I don't read PRs from top to bottom like Github tries to make you. I find that unnatural. * I can also easily, visually, jump around between these areas/files to cross references changes without having to remember their names or scrolling a lot. * In large changes (lots of files in lots of places - it happens sometimes) I can collapse folders that are not interesting or that I'm done with. The fact that I already opened a file once does not tell me anything really as I tend to jump around between files to cross reference things. In fact one great feature to have is to mark a file as "unread" again. Which IIRC Crucible had.