The whole premise of this article is based on 'There are 921 issues and 365 PRs there. ' which tries to infer this some how means that ansible is failing its community.

These numbers are pretty typical of a large open source project with a huge user base / adoption. Kubernetes currently has 4,763 issues with 601 outstanding PRs and Rails has 550 issues with 667 PRs...so i guess someone better point out they are failing too.