Root cause of the bloat: the
Closes #N keyword bug. Merged PRs (esp. #1604) closed issues in
prose with no per-issue closes #N keyword → GitHub never auto-closed them.
19 issues are DONE in code but still open. Wave 0 closes these + 10 obsolete = 29 issues (30%) cleared (1 obsolete, #2376, kept as an upstream-blocked tracker).
Milestone burndown post-triage: green = clearable now, blue = valid work, amber = reconsider
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