The author forgot the "iTard" effect: once the author deletes the module, the disappearance of the feature will cause major turmoil and people will complain to

The author forgot the "iTard" effect: once the author deletes the module, the disappearance of the feature will cause major turmoil and people will complain to the repository owners to restore it asap. This will also create a new opportunity for someone else to...recreate the module, and chances are that it will likely include some malicious or even more broken code. If you want to "improve" the situation, you update the module with code that triggers an exit with a warning message. That will fix the problem.