They were originally by an influencer developer (Sindre Sorhus), so they were junk from the start.

FWIW, I appreciate their contributions to the ecosystem, in the sense that you can just take whatever they're doing, multiply by -1 in each dimension, and there you have your steering vector towards good ideas.

That is genuinely useful and provides a lot of value.

Sure, but that developer set out to curate a list, not do what seemingly everyone did afterwards, which was just to build the "longest list possible" with zero regards to quality of linked projects.