Even if they were still at the same company they'd have moved on or been promoted so it's unlikely they'd be asked to maintain. In my own experience though it

Even if they were still at the same company they'd have moved on or been promoted so it's unlikely they'd be asked to maintain. In my own experience though it is one reason I left my last job. 2 year of new dev, 3 years of maintaince with no end in sight. GPU related stuff, new GPUs come out with new drivers all the time. Working around those bugs so the people using my code don't have to deal with them. There is some feeling of reward but it's mostly no fun. Even in my personal projects the more I have the more maintainance piles on. Browsers break stuff or warnings about libraries. Each project adds X more notifications a month. At some point I'll be overwhelmed with maintainance notificications and have no time for anything else unless I ignore them.