Exactly, months. Likes that's enough time to completely rewrite your extension using an half-baked replacement. To name a few, Cookie-Autodelete [1] had to wait 7 months to get an API to clear the LocalStorage; noscript [2] lost tons of functionality and will probably never recover;

[1]: https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete/issue...

[2]: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12/01/noscripts-rating-drops-aft...