[eps]

Why is a good chunk of the Readme dedicated to pleading for a repo star?

Not the first time seeing a project doing that. This can't be just for vanity reasons. Anyone knows?

[alpark3]

Stars boost visibility and is an important number motivating people who work on these for free

[notThrowingAway]

At least it's better than buying fake stars

https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars

[cuoco]

Makes your CV look good.

[miyuru]

Just went to the project creators LinkedIn and this project is his work Experience section(LinkedIn has separate project section for these) and it explicitly mentions the number of stars.