This is even worse, competitive projects are compared to each other based on number of OPEN issues, making the project that ignores "stale bugs" look better tha

This is even worse, competitive projects are compared to each other based on number of OPEN issues, making the project that ignores "stale bugs" look better than project that keeps bug until actually solved. I've seen this thinking twice in action, a teach leads decided to use react native over flutter, because RN had fewer issues