[rfoo]

The downside is if a product no longer have maintainers you are now encouraged to shut it down, even if it still works and it doesn't cost much to run.

[crubier]

If a product non longer has maintainers, it's probably because it's not worth it for the company. So it makes sense to delete it, from the company point of view.

[dx034]

In that case the product should still have maintainers. Even if only part-time, no software project should be completely unsupervised.