I've not seen those kinds of issues. Apart from some dedicated pseudo-/farm-projects.

But still, it has entirely lost its appeal or even viability to me.

I participated many years, until - I presume - it got too big. I was not able to find good projects, the contributions I made most of the time were not reviewed nor labeled hacktoberfest-accepted. An an extrinsic motivator, it became more frustrating than motivating.