Even great programmers can be terribly misguided

> Responsible stewardship must include a good succession plan, well ahead of retirement from the project. If you can't keep up with the work, please don't do it badly.

The amount of commitment required to "keep up with the work" has skyrocketed out of almost nowhere in the last couple of months. Quite possibly we'll get to a steady state where we've resolved all the bugs that were unintentionally added over the past 30-40 years and we aren't adding new bugs at the same rate (especially for a "done" piece of software like rsync). But I don't think this is a fault of a bad succession plan, any more one can look at the kernel security team or the curl maintainers now drowning in valid bug reports being found by LLMs at a rate much higher than humans reported them, and say this is the fault of a bad non-succession plan.