> Active maintainers and commit dates are much better metric.
But in an age of bots/agents, that's just kicking the can down the road by making it easier to fudge regular activity of practically zero importance. Even worse for the ecosystem than paid like counts.
Indeed. MS just announced building a new datacenter in NZ (which happens to be close to eradicating CV'19 given it's geography) so expansion even during a global crisis is certainly possible.
But in an age of bots/agents, that's just kicking the can down the road by making it easier to fudge regular activity of practically zero importance. Even worse for the ecosystem than paid like counts.