Well what is Anthropic doing differently to deal with this issue? Apparently they don't write any of their own code anymore, and they're doing fine.
Obviously they don’t care. Adoption is exploding. Boris brags about making 30 commits a day to the codebase.
Only will be an issue down the line when the codebase has such high entropy it takes months to add new features (maybe already there).
It doesn’t mean every issue is valid, that it contains a suggestion that can be implemented, that it can be addressed immediately, etc. The issue list might not be curated, either, resulting in a garbage heap.