Is this the core reason that we have a proliferation of packages, arguably doing the same thing, slightly differently, in some ecosystems… We’ve become this impatient?
This space is too hot and the author behind OpenAuth (Dax) is awesome and fast, so this is not his usual tempo. You're free to read the tea leaves, but I wouldn't bet on this one.
There is a sibling post describing this particular project as known dead from the author.
However, my comment is a larger commentary. Imagine if a scientist went off and did research for 2 months and didn’t provide any updates about what they were doing? Would we assume their project was dead? Or a writer who publishes a short story and says “I will turn this into a 500 page novel.” 2 months later… no novel… must be dead!
Why can’t we, instead, assume that people who work on open source are sometimes taking a break? Why can’t we create more fluidity around software… fork it… try to integrate it later? The git model was literally designed around this, but we’ve instead decided to live in a centralized shithole where only the original author is smart enough to make useful contributions… and when they don’t… for whatever reason, we shit can the project and start from scratch.
No activity for nearly 3 months with 67 open issues, 32 open PRs (many as simple as "fix typo") might signify that not a lot of time is being put into the project.
Is this the core reason that we have a proliferation of packages, arguably doing the same thing, slightly differently, in some ecosystems… We’ve become this impatient?