I get what you’re saying and agree with the last sentence. Just wanted to touch on the “why” part.
In the world of exclusively human written software the existence of the artefact itself (code, documentation) served as the proof that there’s someone with half a brain behind it. Now that’s not the case anymore.
The conclusion stays though - it’s OSS, authors/maintainers have no obligation to anyone to do anything. Like it, use it, don’t like it, don’t use it.
As for me, I’ve found that the community and activity proxies are still good.
> As for me, I’ve found that the community and activity proxies are still good.
Definitely still something to look into. A project I'm checking in on from time to time is https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash/.
It will be interesting to see how the project activity is unfolds? Are people using it in production. How many errors do they find. What do those fixes entail. What happens with the docs over time. Etc.
I haven't had a change to look in depth, but based on a quick glance I'd say that the activity on the project seems like the tempo you'd expect of a similar open source project.