Thanks for sharing your thoughts @MichelDiz.
We used the stale bot to get back on top of a mountain of issues and pull requests that were of unknown relevance at the current time. It was our way of automating “is this still an issue?” The goal was not to explicitly close issues, but to reduce noise. I’m sorry if it came across as not valuing submissions from the community. The bot was removed a few months back after it completed its purpose.
We can do better on triaging and more transparently working on issues. Feedback heard and we’ll take action here.