Was I, really? Maybe, if you feel so... but I'd have to say that I had no idea.

What I'm suggesting is that a FOSS project without CLAs and a healthy variety of contributors does belong to the broad open source community that forms around it, while a FOSS project with such CLA is just open to a bait-and-switch scheme because the ownership stays in a single hand that can change course at a moments notice.

Whether the project stops receiving updates or not, is an orthogonal matter.