One idea— create a couple of “dummy” packages that do absolutely nothing. Then the download counts on those would give you a baseline for “downloaded but not used”
Ultimately I think the underlying question we’re answering is whether names on PyPI are a community good or a personal good, and this PEP more or less states they are a community good
Which they absolutely are. PyPi is a community project — the names on pypi are just that — names on pypi. If you don’t want to be part of that community, you can use any name you want.
-CHB