It seems to generate pretty good "Recommended repos for you" suggestions, all of them I've heard and seen before, but for one or another reason didn't use for anything or found a need for. Would be great if it could show more options than just 10, because I'm sure further down the list it'd have interesting suggestions I hadn't seen before.
Sounds like it actually generates poor suggestions for the reason you are describing. For me, it exclusively suggested repos I've already seen, but did not like.