The creator of Lodash needed five years to come back to it (openjsf.org)
John-David Dalton's step-back wasn't a workload story. It was a death, a divorce around 2019, and a long climb back through therapy, exercise, and hobbies that weren't code.
OpenJS's thesis: long-term sustainability beats constant output, and critical infrastructure should rest on committees, not one exhausted human.
The thread's sharpest objection wasn't with that. It was that the foundation flattened a raw phone call into a tidy corporate blog post.
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