Isn't there a chicken and egg problem where projects need to start with 0 track record? Nginx had zero track record at one point as well

Nginx was developed to scale a lot of Russian sites, starting with Rambler. As a second point, Envoy was made by Lyft. A lot of web server OSS goes back to big (at the time) corps.

Never mind cooldowns for dependencies, we need cooldowns for these adhd vibe projects.