This is very unfortunate, but will continue to happen until we figure out how to make money-makers (= companies) properly finance the OSS they are relying upon, and getting maintainers out of burnout.
And if you made it to the end, congratulations! Here is a donation link to send some money to Mastodon, which also suffers from this lack-of-money problem: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors 7/7