May I ask why you find it fishy? I’m one of the maintainer of an Open source project with ~2000 stars and 50 issues [1] (some bugs, some questions and a lot of enhancement proposal). I don’t think there is anything strange in these kinds of numbers.
If it was 50 I would think many users did star your repository because the idea sounds useful but few use it.
Or would you rather I look at the what it does, its contributor guide, release history, roadmap, tests, etc instead of some arbitrary cosmetic value?