This is extremely annoying for maintainers who are trying to review PRs and just cannot find stuff. It's been going for over a month and GitHub is ignoring it. Not to mention 500 pages when you try to merge security fixes or report spam.
At the time when job openings are declining across the board, it's easy to lie with statistics.
It's like publications saying "research discipline X is gaining traction in recent years" based on search matches in PubMed, but not normalizing for the total number of articles submitted increasing.