I understand your frustration, also thank you for your work. > The expectation that software libraries or frameworks should break every few months is disturbin

I understand your frustration, also thank you for your work. > The expectation that software libraries or frameworks should break every few months is disturbing. As a library user, it's hard to find a good balance between fully trusting a system to stay alive for a while without maintenance, while being super paranoid about every aspect I rely on. Mentally it's easier to expect it to break every now and then, than to keep thinking "it's probably fine, but I still need to be defensive about stuff that never happen". I think the issue on a library being "alive" or not is best mitigated by the users being comfortable to fix it if it broke under their use case. There's libraries I thought were completely dead but were a good shortcut to where we wanted to go, and we expected to extend it here and there anyway. That can't work for everything (thinking of security libs in particular, I wouldn't want to touch them) but it's to me the ideal situation, with no undue stress on the lib maintainer as well.