[TonyTrapp]

There are many, many projects where "simply adding more maintainers" is not possible at all, i.e. there are no people that you personally can trust to do the right thing, and that have the necessary experience. For various projects that I maintain, I couldn't name a single person that would have the skill and would actually want to take over. Granted they may not be as popular as this persons's repositories, but still - this claim is not generally true.