But yeah, sure, you're free to tell yourself whatever you want.
And no, it's not only for insiders - thus the message. Outside votes get whitelisted when they meet the compos fairness criteria. It's not a popularity contest. Your vote would not count on this basis (amongst others).
Once again, curious that you bothered to remember something that is relevant to community inside jokes and take dumps on that, even bothered to remember a number, but did not bother to read up on what you're dumping on.
FYI #1 It very much is a standard oAuth2 flow. Just GHs 'always on' message is unfortunate, and that's all there is to it.
There's been topics like https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117 on this ever since they had been introduced. Which, again, you could've encountered if you put your energy into good faith, instead of focusing that bad faith mojo on a small community. If you really feel like proving how "sane" and above "kewl" you are, go take your dump on GitHub - i.e. the one actually responsible for those misleading messages.
FYI #2 Your vote would not count anyway, because only community member votes actually get included in scoring. Although as an outsider you'd been welcome to leave feedback.
The site only requests read access to your email, as the login flow message _actually_ shows.
The "act on your behalf" statement is GitHub's standard message for all GitHub apps, regardless of whether they actually ask to be granted any permissions that would let them perform such actions. There's a "learn more" link right at that statement, that would've explained pretty much exactly this. I find it curious that you bothered to venture into docs and link them, but did not bother to click _that_ one to understand what's actually going on.
It says, i.a.: "The GitHub App can only do things that both you and the app have permission to do.". Since the site only asks for read access to your email address, it cannot actually do anything else. As simple as that.
But yeah, sure, you're free to tell yourself whatever you want.
And no, it's not only for insiders - thus the message. Outside votes get whitelisted when they meet the compos fairness criteria. It's not a popularity contest. Your vote would not count on this basis (amongst others).