For early development that makes sense. But if Gitea is not ready to self-host now then it is also not ready to host most other projects so that doesn't really invalidate the criticism. However from the sibling comments it seems that the move to self-hosting is in progress.
It looks like the only feature blocking their move to self-host is importing data (issues and PRs) exported from GitHub. Which is to say, it's perfectly ready for hosting new projects.
