Yeah, the maintainers of a DOA hobby project should certainly be allowed to run it however they want imo

That's honestly my biggest problem with Zig.

It's clearly a hobby project (constant breakages, the maintainer getting into politics, rejecting some safety mechanisms, the anti-LLM crusade, a strange focus on esoteric targets with little to no commercial significance), but the maintainer does not admit that it is a hobby project.

It makes me respect the Rust community even more.