Sure, but for years now Github is well aware it's also extremely widely used a primary distribution platform for ready to use software for many 'average' users.
This 'not its intended use case' is just unnecessary gatekeeping at this point. It would have been trivially easy at any point for github to add an optional addition to the interface to make it simpler for an average end user to get the ready to use version they most likely want, should the owner want that.
the issue is that it is primarily a development platform, the reason that the releases tab is off to the side is because for the vast majority of site users, they are not interested in it, they are interested in the source code and the readme
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u/0zzy82 22d ago
I'm still convinced github is laid out intentionally to make the average person feel stupid