Yes, we were all 6h old babies at some point. Some of us became great people, some of us became terrorists or worse. Takes some time to see where we end up with. No different for these resources, especially the repositories. If it's an internal tool that's heavily used, then made public with a wiped history, maybe your argument is correct but if it's a never-done-before/new approach to any problem, it needs some time to see the traction and proof.

There's also some form of outcome bias here. You're judging the resource/repository/library/whatever from today's learnings and standards, but it took this amount of time to reach here, maybe do-over multiple times, 100s or 1000s of commits and clearly none of these were there when it was only 6h old.

If by "hopefully they were awesome already" you mean "hopefully deserved gaining widespread traction in the first 6h", then absolutely no. Try the analogy with something physical (like an airplane) to see how ridiculous it sounds. No passenger should've gotten on $the_absolute_most_awesome_vehicle until it had passed the stress and crash tests, been certified, etc.

Were they? I'd expect that even a project that becomes "awesome" was at best "okay" or "promising" at 6h.

I don’t think Linux was very good 6 hours in