Profile README: Stars column, drop version + Context7 badges

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+summary: Give the profile README tables a dedicated Stars column and drop the PyPI-version and Context7 badges, keeping Downloads.
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+# Change: profile README — Stars column, drop version + Context7 badges
+
+## What & why
+
+All four tables in `profile/README.md` currently use three columns —
+`| Project | What it is | Badges |` — where the Badges cell packs several
+shields together (Stars, PyPI version, Downloads, Context7; templates instead
+carry Stars, Context7, and a Template chip). Pull **Stars** into its own column
+and **remove the PyPI-version and Context7 badges**. The DI/services/utilities
+tables become `| Project | What it is | Stars | Downloads |` (the fourth column,
+now holding only the Downloads badge, is renamed from "Badges" to "Downloads").
+The templates table becomes `| Project | What it is | Stars | Badges |`, its
+Badges cell holding just the **Template chip** (templates have no Downloads
+badge, so its fourth column keeps the "Badges" label). Requested to make the
+star counts scannable in their own column and to declutter the badge cell.
+
+## Scope
+
+- One file: `profile/README.md`.
+- Four tables: **Project templates**, **Dependency injection**,
+  **Microservices, HTTP & messaging**, **Utilities**.
+- All four tables: add a `Stars` third column (divider `|---|---|---|---|`) and
+  move each row's `[![Stars]…]` badge into it; delete each row's `[![Context7]…]`
+  badge.
+- DI / services / utilities tables: header becomes
+  `| Project | What it is | Stars | Downloads |`; also delete each row's
+  `[![PyPI]…]` version badge, leaving the fourth cell holding only Downloads.
+- Templates table: header becomes `| Project | What it is | Stars | Badges |`;
+  its fourth cell holds only the Template chip (no PyPI badge existed).
+- Leave every other badge, link, blurb, and row order untouched.
+
+## Verification
+
+- `just check-planning` prints `planning: OK`.
+- `grep -c 'pypi/v/' profile/README.md` returns `0` (no version badges remain).
+- `grep -ci context7 profile/README.md` returns `0` (no Context7 badges remain).
+- Header lines: three read `| Project | What it is | Stars | Downloads |`
+  (DI/services/utilities) and one reads `| Project | What it is | Stars | Badges |`
+  (templates). All four dividers are `|---|---|---|---|`.
+- Spot-check the rendered table columns are aligned and Downloads is still
+  present in the Badges cell of the DI/services/utilities tables.
+- No unrelated lines changed (`git diff` touches only `profile/README.md`).
+
+## Notes
+
+Pure Markdown/table formatting; no code, no tests, no brand assets. Independent
+of the aiohttp brand change (2026-07-02.02) — ships as its own PR.