FWIW, the article now has an update clarifying that it's not the OpenJDK (or JRE) packages that are being orphaned, nor suffering from poor maintenance, but "so

FWIW, the article now has an update clarifying that it's not the OpenJDK (or JRE) packages that are being orphaned, nor suffering from poor maintenance, but "software written in Java". I suppose that would mean libraries or applications. The JRE and JDK should continue working fine, as should any third-party software that just requires one of those.