I've got some serious moral questions about "rewrite your own widely used project from scratch with the same package name"... but I don't think it's fair to cal

I've got some serious moral questions about "rewrite your own widely used project from scratch with the same package name"... but I don't think it's fair to call this "someone else's project" when the OP has apparently been the only maintainer working on the project for 13 years...