[ykonstant]

>2. The psychological impact of the "open issue count" has real consequences despite being meaningless on its own. People will see a project with 1K+ issues and think "oh this is a buggy hell hole" when 950 of those issues are untriaged, unaccepted, 3rd party issues, etc.

Fully agree with this; as a beginner in the space I get nervous when I see a project having a thousand open issues since 2018.