[yakak]

Great, and the if the project you make for a bit more than six months of lots of dedication succeeds people might realize you are an expert in something and try to hire you into a job that is more than full-time and/or doesn't allow other programming with a very nice offer. I would expect you to take that job, but Internet haters will disagree.

Now the project someone chose for its high amount of free unguaranteed support goes off a cliff of no maintainer..

In my experience, I value projects with minimal maintenance over years by a large number of more selfishly invested contributors over the "excited just to be here" projects.