@dalias I've heard bonkers stories of people selecting dependencies based on number of stars.That should alarm basically anyone.
OTOH: there is a disease of being data driven to the point that bigco leadership people can't operate without a number that indicates up-and-to-the-right. Consequently, they latch their jaws into anything that looks like that type of metric. Then people start playing games...
No metrics is a _feature_ of OSS, not a bug.