OpenClaw in Production: The Reality Behind 347K GitHub Stars

OpenClaw in Production: The Reality Behind 347K GitHub Stars OpenClaw hit 347,000 GitHub stars in April 2026. Tech Twitter is aggressively celebrating the milestone, and engineering teams are rushing to implement it. [cite_start]But buried beneath the hype are 469 open security issues, 16 viable alternatives, and an uncomfortable truth: for most teams, OpenClaw is simply not the right tool[cite: 740]. [cite_start]I spent over 40 hours researching OpenClaw's actual production state to separate th