There is no problem with a way of grabbing the repository contents. Good to have, and shouldn't go away. It is the github ui on the release page strongly suggesting to use that download, even when the project has provided a better archive for users to build and install the software. That better archive can already have several pre-build steps run so the end user doesn't need additional tools of no benefit to them.
To be honest, I didn't even know there was a release page in github repos. I don't recall seeing those. I normally don't expect to be able to download installers from github, so I never really thought to look for such a thing.
