Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need updates
I can relate to the frustration of the author.
I wrote an open source library which gets downloaded 50K+ times per week.
At one point, I hadn't updated it in several months and people started asking if the project is dead...
In fact, it wasn't updated in a while because it had been working perfectly and was built in a forward-compatible way; that makes it more healthy and therefore more alive than probably 99% of libraries on the internet.The expectation that software libraries or frameworks should break every few months is disturbing. I think this may be due to the fact that many of the most popular frameworks do this.
I find that React-based apps tend to break every few months for a range of reasons; often because of reliance on obscure functionality or bundling of binaries which aren't forward-compatible with newer engine versions.