Without any frame of reference this seems to simply be a function of the popularity and usage of a complex project like this.

Chromium has 120 new issues opened so far today. Does that therefore make it a bad browser engine doomed to failure?

Fair, I’ll provide some reference.

Next has 130k stars and 2550 issues labeled as bugs.

Svelte has 80k stars and 64 issues labeled bugs.

Vue has 47k stars and 80 issues labels bugs.

Remix has 30k stars and 240 issues labeled bugs.

HTMX has 38k stars and 27 issues labeled as bugs.

This.

Another example: Flutter has 12k issues, but that's because it's the most popular cross-platform app framework. Also it's not all literally issues, it's just a tracking board for all kinds of "things" that need to be tracked.

(I work on Next) The issue count includes core issues, examples, and docs. We might consider breaking that out in the future. Next has ~1.2M active devs, so we expect a certain level of issues being opened weekly that will take time to investigate. With that being said, we definitely still want to get the total # down (and have many old issues that are stale and don't have repros we need to clean up)