The exact same way you decide now. You go look at the projects, see which ones have the features you want, then you tend to look at how many users the projects have and how mature they are, and then pick one based on that. Don’t pretend that some thing changed here all of a sudden.
Worthless projects dillute valuable projects.
Imagine there being 100 photo projects like this.
One of them is immich. You are new and have no experience. How would you decide which one to install?
The exact same way you decide now. You go look at the projects, see which ones have the features you want, then you tend to look at how many users the projects have and how mature they are, and then pick one based on that. Don’t pretend that some thing changed here all of a sudden.