I am all for the GitHub/gitlab/forgejo/codeberg based approach of managing issues, PRs, releases in "modern" ways.
This is where I am probably more grumpy than you are, as I am currently moving away from this model. What triggered that is the realization that I ended up spending much more time moving issues around and writing in merge requests comments what should have gone in commit messages in the first place, than the time I spent on what I find really fun: improving/breaking my software!

No longer considering the forge (self-hosted GitLab for me) as the central place magically freed up a lot of time that I can spend on the actual software development and maintenance instead.

This is still an ongoing migration, as I have yet to find a good bugs/requests tracker to replace the issues system integrated in GitLab.