How ironic to see the comments here bringing exactly the kind of pressure he wants to walk away from. Skimming through the thread most seem to be telling him what to do instead of what he chose.

Dude is probably just tired and needs a break, maybe he comes back, regardless I am thankful for his work and wish him joy in life.

Nah, you're just twisting things around. We are criticizing and calling out the rationale he's giving. Not even interested if he hears it. It's message to the public of the maintainers behavior. Not to him. He's got a right to do what he wants.

The critique is not about the demands for his time as a maintainer, which is what he is addressing, that no one here is complaining about. In fact, post folks have made it clear that they have no issue with it.

My take has always been that there's a mutual "no requirements other than basic human respect" that goes both ways between maintainers and users. It's totally valid for someone to decide they want to close the source for their repo for pretty much whatever reason they want, because they don't owe me anything; by the same logic, it's also totally valid for me to think that's a poor decision and voice my opinion about it in a public forum, as long as I'm not being disrespectful about it.

I guess my view is that it's right and proper for people to point out invalid arguments, even if they're being made to justify something that the author has the right to do anyway.