In the age of unlimited and very fast content production (for any media, code, images, music, text, or otherwise), I think content curation like this may be more desired than ever.
Maybe I'm too optimistic, but personally it would lower the burden on me so much to have a curated list of *awesome* projects.
The fact that another person has taken from their time, so the hundreds or thousands of people reading this list don't have to do the same amount of investigation to figure out if a project is truly awesome, is in itself awesome.
Exactly good awesome lists have always been and will be the "goldmine" of curated resources. Not only these, I see all slow paced thoughtfully put in content as such. Like take StackOverflow for example. But it's really unfortunate to see people give up.