Many of the participants may also be reading it in a terminal emulator with no web browser nearby.
Used this daily for many years. Was great when connecting to the internet was only practical via a shell.
All of the comments/updates on the bug report are loaded by javascript and don't work for me in lynx or elinks.
I've met people who seriously do use dumb terminals and other people who have seriously discussed using a PDP-11.
So, while your question might sound sarcastic, the answer is definitely yes.
Nerds gonna nerd. Nothing wrong with that.
I personally don't like going to gitlab or github because I don't like the businesses behind them. That's another point irrespective of whether I'm browsing in a terminal or ancient device.
You can't possibly expect the world to cater to such affectations
However there are many things that all need to work:
Firefox (or similar) installed (using a snap??)
DNS must work Firewall allow it Preferably open the browser on a second monitor for easy work flow.
Oh and to click the link, the programmer may need to find his wireless mouse because he may not have used it in days.
This is very much a Chesterton's fence topic, I think. Linux developers have settled on a workflow that works for them, and if you want to get time from the people who are doing the bulk of the work it's fair to expect you to work within their requests.
Git itself is a satellite project of the Linux kernel. It can work without the web at all. That someone EEE’d it so hard that even Microsoft couldn’t resist is no reason to expect the kernel devs to change their workflow.