If triage is happening stalebot is fine. Unleash it on "need-more-info" issues, or feature requests with no upvotes, I don't think anyone has a problem with that.

I think people are objecting to un-triaged issues being able to go stale, and you then have to keep fighting the bot every month because the maintainer doesn't spend the time to confirm it while demanding you waste your own time to bump it.