Echoing the other commentor, I think the name-dropping provides two important pieces of info: 1) I can match my previous knowledge of related projects to get a

Echoing the other commentor, I think the name-dropping provides two important pieces of info: 1) I can match my previous knowledge of related projects to get an idea of what this project is trying to be, and likely have that be accurate. 2) in an age where any random half-baked idea has a polished marketing page and lofty ambitions, it's a noise filter for "these people have completed projects that have actually been used". If anything, on a page that doesn't name-drop, I'd trust a bare-bones, nocss landing page more.