My preferred compromise would be if GitHub started sorting issues by "number of upvotes" by default. (Upvotes aren't entirely a thing on GitHub issues, but you

My preferred compromise would be if GitHub started sorting issues by "number of upvotes" by default. (Upvotes aren't entirely a thing on GitHub issues, but you can add a thumbs-up emoji which is pretty similar.) For some projects, there is just far more desire for free help than there are people available to help for free. In these cases it is still useful to discover issues that enormous numbers of people have, even if you won't have the bandwidth to deal with a large fraction of them.