It depresses me too, but what else can you do? I check what the docs look like, but if I'm to depend on a thing I'd rather choose something popular than unpopul

It depresses me too, but what else can you do? I check what the docs look like, but if I'm to depend on a thing I'd rather choose something popular than unpopular. GitHub stars, Hackage downloads, StackShare... what else can one check?