They do though, don't they? They indicate interest or popularity. Their purpose is not to demonstrate the quality or usefulness of a thing, but how popular it i

They do though, don't they? They indicate interest or popularity. Their purpose is not to demonstrate the quality or usefulness of a thing, but how popular it is. When I choose libraries or tools for work, let's say I need a Go library for something; I use the star count and the commit activity together to determine whether a project is popular enough (vs others) to use over the others.