Thanks to manyverse's somewhat ineffable ways, I just stumbled over this one again .
Thank you for sharing, @Christian.
This pattern is quite real throughout the ssb stack. And I think this can't stay this way. A sustainable effort can't be built on finding a new torch bearer every other month, just to see them burn out.

After spending the better part of a year living in JS land I don't consider myself experienced in the ways of the scriptures but I think I've seen a bunch of the pains one gets to see when entering this ecosystem. I feel like this tendency of being exhausting is maybe not directly causally related to the language, but maybe to the dev culture/ecosystem around it.
The way that JS libraries/apps (and patchwork is no exception here, oasis is better though) keep stacking leaky abstractions on top of each other seems... it seems to be encouraged by the tooling and generally by the JS community.

I'm happy that the feature-based funding worked I this instance. Maintenance will have to look differently.

I hope you're not burnt out on ssb in general. I think the best is yet to come :)