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The thing that changed is we began building off of more and more open source, and so it became more and more important. Nobody is expecting a project's original creator to slave over it eternally. They are instead expecting them to clearly signal their intentions. A "Not Maintained" flag, or "Read my design philosophy before using", after understanding community expectations, is no effort and a reasonable expectation. Counter arguments like to think we are islands and that because we never signed an official contract, we have no responsibilities to anyone but ourselves. But that is not how society ever has or ever will work, and there never has nor ever will be any such thing as "leaving" society (other than death). There's a social contract that you are (unwillingly) a part of, and that's reality. Entitlement here is merely people implicitly recognizing that fact.

EDIT: This rant is a general reply to your general sentiment, not a specific reply to this particular case. I have no idea whether the author did in fact signal appropriately their design, risk, etc.