I hate to see a piece of open-source software abandoned and broken. But I love to see a piece of software “abandoned” and still working because it has been desi

I hate to see a piece of open-source software abandoned and broken. But I love to see a piece of software “abandoned” and still working because it has been designed for long-term use and simply doesn’t need updating. That is how open-source grows. Because you can’t grow a codebase if you have to keep updating and fixing what you’ve already done. As you have to keep updating and fixing stuff, new progress slows and eventually stops. It’s the same for “codebases” like ecosystems/package repos and open-source in general