Overall Assessment

✅ Looks good

Executive Summary

• Scope is limited to the README badge strip: the PR swaps the downloads badge source and removes the Read the Docs build-status badge in README.md:L9-L13.
• No estimator, variance/SE logic, weighting, identification assumption, default behavior, or API surface is touched; methodology review is therefore non-applicable beyond confirming no affected registry entry in docs/methodology/REGISTRY.md.
• Documentation discoverability remains intact because the README still contains a dedicated documentation section with direct links in README.md:L49-L56.
• No runtime code, dependency, or security-sensitive behavior is introduced.
• No unmitigated P0 or P1 findings.

Methodology

Severity: None. Impact: No methodology-bearing change; the diff only edits README presentation in README.md:L9-L13. Concrete fix: None.

Code Quality

Severity: None. Impact: The Markdown change is small and coherent; removing one badge and replacing another does not introduce structural issues in the rendered badge block at README.md:L9-L13. Concrete fix: None.

Performance

Severity: None. Impact: README-only change; no library runtime, build-path, or inference-performance effect. Concrete fix: None.

Maintainability

Severity: None. Impact: Removing the docs status badge does not orphan docs access because the README already provides explicit documentation links in README.md:L49-L56. Concrete fix: None.

Tech Debt

Severity: None. Impact: No new deferred work or TODO-worthy follow-up is introduced by this presentation-only change. Concrete fix: None.

Security

Severity: None. Impact: No secrets, code-execution surface, or sensitive-data handling changes are present; the new Pepy badge is just another external README asset/link. Concrete fix: None.

Documentation/Tests

Severity: P3-informational. Impact: This is a documentation-presentation change only, so test additions are not required; documentation access remains available via README.md:L49-L56. Concrete fix: None.