- Linear automatically cancels tickets which haven't been touched in 6 months
- Trello would visually "age" cards, making them increasingly yellow and tattered
- Datadog dashboards have a "popularity" score based on usage
Most auto-closed issues in my small team are of the varieties "the PM had a nice idea one day" and "long standing annoyance which we would need to re-architect to solve and we'll get to it one day".
And I don't even necessarily disagree with the CADT post, but... most users are not, for better or worse, so easily dissuaded.