At the very least, it's unsustainable to maintainers as people, because many are burning out (I have no data, so this is an assumption). As a result, it's also

At the very least, it's unsustainable to maintainers as people, because many are burning out (I have no data, so this is an assumption). As a result, it's also unsustainable to other coders because the OSS ecosystem grows replete with broken and stale code that is no longer maintained and which creates cognitive cost to ignore/prune. Both might grow in a non-linear fashion, which would be really bad news.