Well, this topic has been discussed before in 2019 and there were apparently plans to add popularity of plugins to the Library plugin listing. I did not see anything about site scraping, but I may have missed that. It is obvious that site scraping was used to generate the graphs that starts off that topic. Interesting, the number one plugin was Audible Instruments then and that is what I found as the apparent top plugin yesterday.
https://community.vcvrack.com/t/barriers-to-plugin-adoption/905
I’m not sure this link to this topic works. We’ll see once I press Reply.