Why no one has ever build a better GitHub client?

I find the GitHub Desktop tool to be rather clunky.

I use git in various ways;

* CLI for most small tasks

* GUI for big tasks and getting an overview

* Editor UI for small things if I am currently in the editor.

* GitHub’s website for collaboration and GH specific tasks

The GUI’s I use are:

Git-Fork on macOS, Windows. Visually my favorite UI of all. https://git-fork.com

Sublime Merge on macOS, Windows and Linux. I use this the most since my main development system is Linux. It is more powerful. https://www.sublimemerge.com

I prefer those two to Tower, but Tower is much better than GitHub’s tools. Tower is probably the most powerful tool out there.

Many editors have good Git support. I tend to use these tools first smaller git tasks.

VSCode had a wealth of built-in and add on tools that can do nearly anything. I generally find these to be rather inelegant UI designs. But again better than GitHub’s own client.

I have been VERY pleased with the Zed Editor’s current git integration and expect it will improve. I have only recently started to use Zed as my primary editor on an experimental basis.

Finally, I haven’t really reviewed all of this in a few years. Always interested in learning new ways.

VSCode has become my favorite Git client, very simple but covers almost everything you'd want to do.

Are you asking for a Github client in particular, or a git client? if the latter, there are several to choose from, some paid, some free (personally, I like lazygit, but I've used Tower (meh), Git Kraken (quite good, but heavy and not completely free), the built-ins in Jetbrains products, and, ofc the git cli.

If you're asking about the former - something to provide a new view on all the GitHub things like PR, then I don't know of one (though some of the GUI git clients have PR functionality built-in).

I used Refined Github for a while, but ended up stopping as most of the useful stuff (for me, at least) in there appears to be natively available on github.com.

There are so many? Sublime Merge, Tower, etc..

Have you tried Tower?