Doesn't mean it's not fun/useful though! Stars are a kind of handwave proxy for utility. And it's useful to see what's catching fire and what's staying lit.
- [0] "The following graphs compare the number of stars added on GitHub over the last 12 months."
So link them and be helpful rather than mouth off. The links you provided are to GH star-based lists, and all the sub-lists on those pages are also star-based lists. I'm sure you're right, so I'm keen to see what you're talking about.