If they had done an activity check they would have seen that half of all projects have zero maintainers.
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updating is a systemic issue, not a per-project matter
Well, when you talk about a distribution there's a different issue.
The entire Linux ecosystem is constantly shifting with each package releasing new versions, and therefore everything else must be updated to accommodate the changes in the dependency tree.
You could get away with some stuff being only stable versions, but things like mesa, x11, chrome, etc... would still be constantly changing as would their dependency trees.