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A Serverless plugin with 142k weekly downloads last shipped a release in 2021. Downloads said taken; the registry said abandoned; the platform's roadmap said something else entirely. The incumbent map — weekly downloads × years since last publish × open-issue decay — is how I decide what to build next, including the pick I shipped against two months before the fact-check caught up with me.

Our loudest serverless claim — 'ghost billing after sls remove' — failed our own E2E run. The trap is real, but it lives on a different path entirely. The full story of re-scoping a claim in public, and why the narrower version came out stronger.

My serverless benchmark prints 0.88 vs 0.3025 — real measurements running on editorial weights. Every index has a committee; the only real question is whether it publishes its votes. Mine are here: seven dimensions, the null policy, and a ±50% attack on the weights.