[Akronymus]

> This isn’t the controversy the title suggests.

Yeah, I too am so sick of ragebait titles on HN by now, that my bar for contacting the HN mod team has become very low.

> The dev did yank the previous releases, which wasn’t maybe the wrong choice.

I'd argue that it isn't really dropped as all previous releases still seem to be accesible via the tags on the repo. You "just" have to compile it yourself. If the git history were dropped too, that'd be a different story.