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Finding good maintainers is a lot of work. People who are most eager to become maintainers often aren't good options. It's just as hiring a new employee, and do you want to go through that process and pain to make some guys and girls on the internet happy?

Just as an example, I tried to find a maintainer to take over an OSS project I worked on. A lot of people wanted to take over but didn't understand how to code. They just wanted to project manage, maybe for the sake of their CVs. There was 1 guy I really thought was good because he was helpful, making good PR and so on, then it turns out he is sending racist crap in private to members of the community.

Then there were people who wanted to take ownership so they could do something similar to "rewrite in rust".