Thank you for the answers!
As far as I see I am not alone with the wish to spend my time with developing Pywiki (which I didn't do since dropping SVN) instead of preparing for developing and finding out annoying technical details.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/versus_Bugzilla lists the
reasons for the migration. It also links to the "Past steps" of the last
12 months which lead to the community's decision to move to Phabricator.