I would observe that even today, the GH desktop repo has only 14k stars, and at the time, archive.org says only 2.6k[1] - so I would not be surprised if the costs associated with the restore were massively different.
(Not weighing in on whether they still should have considered it or not, just observing that their claim that it costs an unacceptable amount may not be inconsistent with having restored a much less comparatively "hot" repo.)
(Not weighing in on whether they still should have considered it or not, just observing that their claim that it costs an unacceptable amount may not be inconsistent with having restored a much less comparatively "hot" repo.)
[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20201116172809/https://github.co...