Would you call TeX or Bash stagnant? They have a few commits per year. Some projects are like Michelangelo's David where they arch toward completion. At which p

Would you call TeX or Bash stagnant? They have a few commits per year. Some projects are like Michelangelo's David where they arch toward completion. At which point the game usually becomes inventing new stuff on top of it, like LaTeX. It's a good model for a gift economy like open source and less disruptive than things like the Python 2 to 3 transition.