[blincoln]

Counterpoint: I've written a lot of niche utilities over the years. Some of them are very simple, and some of them are very complex. They're specialized enough that in most cases, they are the only software that performs a specific type of work.

To my knowledge, they all still do exactly what I made them to do. Are there things I would like to add to some of them if I had unlimited time? Yes. Does not having time to do that mean that they've stopped doing what they were designed to do? No.

The only time I can see an argument for frequent updates being required (as opposed to a bonus) is for software with direct dependencies on other things. youtube-dl, for example, or the NTDS.dit-extracting functionality in Impacket are good examples of this - they work directly with content that may change at any time, so someone needs to make sure they're compatible with the current versions of that content.