I mean, yes, but I don’t think anyone is intending to do use packages only based one factor. Popularity is a reasonable heuristic for quality and long-term continued support. And my reading of OP is that they’re trying to gauge the popularity to use it for that. I think it’s also a decent enough measure for discovery, since usefulness (hopefully) should correlate with popularity and the latter is more measurable.

In the past, I’ve used Fcitix (in Plasma anyway) and found it to work well.

Since I switched distros and moved to Wayland though, I haven’t managed to get it working again.

I wish my job would force MacOS instead of Windows. 😭