For me the presence of a stale bot that automatically closes issues after 30 days - like Bulma - is a major red flag. Sweeping issues under the carpet actively

For me the presence of a stale bot that automatically closes issues after 30 days - like Bulma - is a major red flag. Sweeping issues under the carpet actively makes your library worse, only because one really values the vanity metric of "closed/open issue ratio". Github star count is another useless metric, often inflated by "star this on github" widgets on the homepage.