[bornelsewhere]

This. The project is considered one of the (if not the) go-to web frameworks in Rust, lives under its own organisation, is promoted and discussed by many other people. It's not a sole property of the maintainer any more. The maintainer does not owe anyone any new code, nor accepting any PRs. But he does have to set correct expectations. If you want to be the sole BDFL and not care about others opinions or contributions then don't promote it as production code, keep it under your own profile, and/or make it clear in the README. Now it's a community project, "fun" is not necessarily the most important quality anymore. State your position early.