In the long term, this is intended as an alternative to collaboration platforms like GitHub and GitLab for people/organizations who want full control of their data and user experience, without compromising on the social aspect of these platforms.
The first three paragraphs of the guide has a longer motivation: https://docs.radicle.xyz/guides/user
Feedback: consider adapting the docs for mobile view Feedback 2: a short tldr about the short term use cases would be great :-)
Yes, working on it!