[mr_mitm]

This seems to happen more and more often, or at least it feels that way to me. FLOSS projects that aren't highly critical but very useful are maintained by only one person which loses interest, burns out or simply has other priorities. Sometimes they don't even make an announcement like here and just ghost the project. Very sad, even though understandable.

[wvh]

A lot of FOSS projects are started by young people, often students. At some point, life hits, with spouses and children and real jobs demanding lots of time. Slowly people burn out, and most of the time, other people want to scratch their own itch and don't necessarily continue what already exists.

I guess password managers are relatively simple at the core but have to fulfil very different requirements so there isn't one obvious piece of software that everybody can focus on. See also bike-shedding vs building a nuclear reactor.

A better philosophy on how to herd cats would be useful in the FOSS world, though. It's a formidable force, but terribly scattered.

[prmoustache]

It happens also to proprietary apps maintained by individual developpers / small teams. At least in this case an open source project is easier to fork even if original dev becomes unresponsive/unreachable.