If an author is not willing to do responsible release engineering they should lose their publishing ability and have their project marked as unmaintained. This

If an author is not willing to do responsible release engineering they should lose their publishing ability and have their project marked as unmaintained. This would force people to migrate to better maintained code, or find responsible volunteer maintainers to maintain it. Everyone wins. Even when you drop off food at a food pantry for consumption by strangers there is a basic expectation it is not spoiled or dangerous.