In reply to Miroslav Glavic.

I think that's maybe more in the context of, "too lazy to care enough about some broken metrics of a broken system to jump all the necessary hoops..." not too lazy in general. :)

But, the point I'm trying to stress is that those are the metrics users are using. And Justin is right that the onus falls on the users to do the research, beyond those metrics... I know that's the reality... but I guess I'm questioning if that should be the case.

IMO, it is Automattic that should be putting in the effort for their vetting system, unless the goal is to just have a big number of plugins for marketing purposes.