not the team response, but maybe you’ll find this useful:
You can judge by the number of non-feature commits on GitHub:
I wouldn’t worry about those messages. They usually arise because some dependency upon which discourse is built has changed something, which happens insanely often in software development. You usually don’t have enough time to fix all the “noncrucial” things, and you wait until they actually interfere with the way things should work.
You could also notice that the team runs tests on each commit, so once something becomes unusable, they should detect it.