The removed packages would now have to be built from source. They are fully open source projects developed independently of macFUSE. As such, these projects now

The removed packages would now have to be built from source. They are fully open source projects developed independently of macFUSE. As such, these projects now have no place in Homebrew because they're not eligible for Casks either. So installing them would mean no support from Homebrew. No binary builds, no automatic updates, none of the fixes that package managers often apply to make software install cleanly. The removed packages were quite popular too according to Homebrew's opt-out analytics[1] and included things like ntfs-3g, sshfs, ext4fuse, and encfs. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20201021211533/https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/install-on-request/365d/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201021211533/https://formulae....