> An e-bike that can even do 20mph comfortably is much closer to a moped than a bicycle

There are pedal assist ebikes hitting the market that are nearly indistinguishable from a road bicycle and weigh as much as a kitted out steel touring bike (i.e. ~35-40 lbs) and can comfortably do 20 mph.[0] I don't really think that's treading any sort of line of being close to a moped.

Also there are absolutely people riding analog bikes capable of having an average cadence of 15-20 mph who ride with reckless abandon on crowded mixed-used paths in cities - so maybe you don't do that, but there's a pretty large subset of cyclists who are doing that because biking is more of a sport activity than strictly pragmatic form of transportation. Bad bike path etiquette extends beyond ebikes

[0] ride1up is one brand making such bikes

Isn't it likely that newer projects licensing under GPL are also unlikely to be using GitHub and instead be using a platform like GitLab or Forgejo (or previously Gitea or something)?

This is basically the modern "google-driven" development experience as well. The copy-pasting from SO trope has existed for some time, but it's much worse in the last 5-7 years with the increase of blogspam/LLM generated content on Medium that's SEO'd to the top and effectively just rewriting the "getting started" page of some language/framework/tool/etc. for resume boosting points.

It seems like a lot of the models in ChatGPT and Copilot were trained on that content and in turn tends to produce a lot of dead end solutions for anything that isn't the 90% cases and often leads to more pain than reading documentation and building a solution through iteration/experimentation.

Maybe that's part of the reason why "strider" bikes are becoming a lot more common for toddlers to learn how to ride a bike. They're effectively what the OP describes, a bike with no pedals that you run and then balance on.

What I've found helps me with hobby jumping or not completing tasks/practicing/etc. is to not talk about it. If I'm going to do a task or work on a hobby the act of saying I'm going to do something triggers the same dopamine reward as actually doing the thing. Instead I try to only talk about things that are already done in order to hold myself a little bit more accountable for actually working on stuff.