This 100%. Especially the 'most projects are uninteresting' part. I see a lot of enthusiastic students writing yet another Tensorflow something of 2 files and

This 100%. Especially the 'most projects are uninteresting' part. I see a lot of enthusiastic students writing yet another Tensorflow something of 2 files and uploading it to GitHub. That does not mean these projects are interesting. It is hard to get great project ideas. On the other hand it is quite easy to slap together yet another python data visualization 'project'. Another thing is, plagiarism. Some people create repository out of cloned files. (if forked, it will be shown as forked on GitHub).