The value of documentation is proportional to how much effort went into creating it. Autogenerated docs aren't as structured or helpful.
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GitHub tracks download counts for releases, so I can see that macOS releases of difftastic downloaded are downloaded much less frequently!
I don't know if it's proportional to usage though. All these operating systems have several package managers.
Generally I'd expect project adoption to be proportional to the number of maintainers. More maintainers means more fixes, more features, more supporting infra (docs, CI).
What are the exceptions to this?
I suspect the ratio of commit message characters to changed code characters is directly proportional to the debugging effort required.