> If one library has 1,000 stars and the other has 15, I'm going to default to the 1,000 stars.

There are clearly inflection points where stars become useful, with "nobody has ever used this package" and "Meta/Alphabet pays to develop/maintain this package" on the two extremes.

I'm less sure what the signal says in-between those extremes. We have 2 packages, one has 5,000 stars, the other has 10,000 stars - what does this actually tell me, apart from how many times each has gone viral on HN?