[sod]

The owner of a repository dying (assumption) is an example why you don't trust modern software?

The active maintainers moved the project to a shared repository with a different name 2 years after the creator was seen anywhere.

[sbergot]

You could argue that "modern" versions of old tools with a bus factor of 1 are harder to trust.

[fkyoureadthedoc]

You could, but it doesn't seem relevant to this post.

[HelloNurse]

The bus has come, and this is the best possible rescue.

[JetSpiegel]

What's the bus factor of coreutils?

[sillysaurusx]

(Not to take away from your point.) According to https://bsago.me/tech-notes/feed.json the creator was active in September 2022, one year ago. So it’s probably best to assume they’re ok.

Personally, I view it as a big success for open source. Someone can make something cool and vanish, and it still lives on via fork. It’s hard to think of any other type of work where that’s possible.