Your issues are 5 upvotes average. There are a bunch of opened issues with way more upvotes than this.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc+is%3Aopen
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc
You can hide the notification icon, and check unread in https://lemmy.ml/inbox when you want to.
Ublock Origin Dashboard -> My filters, add: lemmy.ml##a[href="/inbox"].nav-link
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