Successful contributions to open source projects are a kind of currency. GitHub in particular encourages this in a number of ways: by showing avatars of contributors on repository pages, by showing your contributions to your followers via the activity feed and by signalling contributions per day on the activity graph of your profile. Potential hiring managers often take note of this. Recruiters often find and screen candidates this way. If you are a software developer (either existing or aspiring) looking for work, tuning these signals can often work to your advantage.
The amount of posts in r/blender titled “I made an add-on that…” Then you look inside and it’s slop. Works on one specific version of blender and the creator has no intention of figuring out how to update it to keep it working, making it completely unviable to add to my workflow even if they weren’t trying to charge money.
Also most of them are like the one I saw literally yesterday “quickly turn an image into a 3D mesh!”. They downvote me when I reply “you can already do this with imported images. right click → convert to mesh” and reply to me with crap like “but now you can do it with one click, and the result is better!” when it genuinely isn’t.
Slop is fucking everywhere these days.