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It took me all of 5 seconds to fix my automations when GitHub changed that. Also "forced" is a bit strong, they didn't touch existing repos, and it's only the default branch if you let GitHub initialize the repo (which I never do).
It's not just about code, though. I have to write complicated procedures for my job (maintenance of large electrical and mechanical systems, not tech) and I was told I couldn't designate a master procedure. I told that reviewer to pound sand, but if this trend takes hold it will unnecessarily complicate all kinds of work.
I was still a somewhat-clueless high school student at the time, and I had to create new repositories for every assignment in my CS electives. Niche, I know, but someone has to be the edge case...
(They used a dumpster fire home-grown autograder that couldn't handle concepts like "assignment X is in directory Y." Or any sort of file structure that deviated from the IntelliJ project layout. Supposedly they didn't want to pay for a commercial service...)