[allengeorge]

Maybe because we're swayed by superficial, yet impactful choices: the use of a "modern-looking webpage with a visually-attractive theme", the use of the latest technologies - or at least those the community is talking about, buzz around the project, etc.

I realize it's tedious, but even older projects could do with periodic updates to tutorials, documentation, webpage updates and outreach to draw new interest from the community.

[lostcolony]

"It may be stable, but is it pleasant?" to use, to develop with, etc. That matters. There is definitely a goldilocks zone for libraries/frameworks, where they're mature enough to be reasonable to use in production, but still recent enough to not require a lot of effort to bring up to date.