Counting vulnerabilities is entirely useless. You can easily attribute more vulns to better security, as it may indicate a larger/ better group of people are looking for vulnerabilities.

I actually find that is generally the case.

Generally, how much vulnerabilities is too much? I think Node is past this point.

There is no limit - as I said, counting is pointless.

As an example, lots of projects have active bug bounty programs where they pay people to disclose vulns. This generates more CVEs than a competing product that does not pay for more vulns. Would we then call the project with a bug bounty program less secure? I'd hope not.

Alternatively, what about impact? Maybe 100 DOS's is less serious than 5 RCE's, or 10 privescs is more serious than 1 RCE? How do we convert between these severities to understand risk?

Counting vulns is pointless.

I think comparing is pointless. You are correct that a project with a small number of vulns is no more secure than the one with a high number of vulns. But counting seem sensible - if a project spills major vulns at a continuous rate it means two things: the overall codebase is not improving, and who knows how many more vulns there are. It's not something to be happy about.

I disagree for exactly the reasons I've stated - "more vulns" doesn't take impact into account. "More vulns" doesn't take who is reporting them into account (internal? paid pentester?). These things matter a lot.

Again, look at projects that pay for vulns. They have hundreds a year - this is a good thing. They come in at a continuous rate.

Counting is pointless.