I don't even know how many stars I have. Maybe the tens of thousands. On npm alone I have an upwards of billions of downloads a week. None of that really means

I don't even know how many stars I have. Maybe the tens of thousands. On npm alone I have an upwards of billions of downloads a week. None of that really means anything, so I don't view that as a signal of authority on this subject. This article is exactly what's wrong with GitHub. Flashy logos and jargon-ey readmes fooling folks into thinking something is high quality, secure, thoughtful code that will benefit instead of hurt. These things are important for garnering views, sure, but open source isn't a marketing channel. You're optimizing for the wrong thing here. Further, in my experience this applies primarily to web (see: Javascript) and ML spaces. Most other areas of focus don't worry as much about this.