To add on to community -- it's more than that as well, it's the zeitgeist. In the scientific computing world, if something has hit NumFocus' portfolio then it's active, maintained, accessible, and (IMO) can consider adding into a tech stack. Similar for Apache for general FLOSS projects.

I don't understand the dotnet's extension ecosystem -- how to find quality sourcing, etc. Going from an established project into dotnet SDK makes sense. But searching GitHub for useful dotnet frameworks -- stars are probably misleading here?