It’s a really bad heuristic. I evaluate projects by (1) actually reading their source code, (2) looking up their frequency of updates and release packaging, (3

It’s a really bad heuristic. I evaluate projects by (1) actually reading their source code, (2) looking up their frequency of updates and release packaging, (3) the community interaction of authors and contributors. The total amount of effort it took to write that blog post could have been spent on submitting PRs to improve documentation of various projects.