Comment by dr_kiszonka

That's good insight.

One disadvantage of archived repos is that you can't submit issues. For this reason it is hard to assess how bug free the package is. My favorite assessment metric is how long it takes the maintainer(s) to address issues and PRs (or at least post a reply). Sure, it is not perfect and we shouldn't expect all maintainers to be super responsive, but it usually works for me.