Yes, that's how I'd interpret it, too.
According to the article, onboarding speed is measured as “time to the 10th Pull Request (PR).”
As we have seen on public GitHub projects, LLMs have made it really easy to submit a large number of low-effort pull requests without having any understanding of a project.
Obviously, such a kind of higher onboarding speed is not necessarily good for an organization.
Yeah it should only count ACCEPTED pull requests.