Yup, here is a good example of that in the wild: https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/issues/495
The README says right there that they haven't found a good autodoc tool for C and that their API instability makes it burdensome to maintain documentation right now; calling them bad engineers for that is a bit much. Their only "mistake" is being a project for which outside enthusiasm has far outpaced its progress.
It's okay to have that attitude about tutorials, and guides to internals, and other satellite docs, but not core documentation (reference manual or spec).