De facto corporate projects lose their attraction for new people, so it's no wonder that no new maintainer has stepped up. Corporate projects are not true free

De facto corporate projects lose their attraction for new people, so it's no wonder that no new maintainer has stepped up. Corporate projects are not true free software. Contributing means that you deal with the OSS inner circle and the more powerful corporate inner circle. Another reason is that people who produce real software are treated like garbage, especially if it is written in C. The "they trust me, dumb fucks" web developers rule over real software engineers.