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by ysavir 518 days ago
To the company, no. But to people trying to get a promotion/bigger budgets by proving the features they work on are getting a lot of usage, plausible.
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> To the company, no.

Why not? Companies love to boast about MAUs and similar metrics (even if completely bogus), it has good effect on stock prices.

Those are very general stats. They won't drop just because they disincentivize abuse of issues or pull requests.