Losing access to your account means you can't push new versions. Eventually your users have to manually move to other software or forks (by you or somebody else

Losing access to your account means you can't push new versions. Eventually your users have to manually move to other software or forks (by you or somebody else). If you account gets compromised (because your domain expired for example), someone else can push a new malicious version that your users will automatically install and run.