A lot of people who have a gap between jobs for 1-2 years because they worked on their insane projects certainly wouldn't.
Of course unless your passion project is very successful one, but majority of them are not.
I worked on a repo for several years with many tens of thousands of lines of code and attempted to promote it heavily with little success. At some point I chopped out about 2,500 lines of code from that repo and packaged just one feature as a standalone product.
Years later the child repo has thousands of users and the parent has barely any. While I consider both projects to be successful by definition, if I'm going to briefly showcase one over the other I'll showcase the smaller project that received more engagement. Because the engagement metrics do indeed matter. It lends credence and legitimacy to a project.