I was referring to the APIs required by screen itself to run. If screen is anything like any software I know anything about a fair amount of limited developer t

I was referring to the APIs required by screen itself to run. If screen is anything like any software I know anything about a fair amount of limited developer time has to be wasted on keeping up with random third-party stuff changing/breaking. Even if that is not the case, if we get more stable software in general that would mean maintainers of free software could take on more projects each, meaning there would be a higher probability that someone could be around to fix bugs in screen.