Your youtube-dl example doesn't make sense because youtube-dl wasn't wiped from everyone's computer nor from package managers nor from the internet. So of course losing youtube-dl wasn't the concern.

The thing at threat was the thing the team was using to maintain it, so that's what people were concerned about.

You don't care more about your garage than your house just because you're crying about your garage when a tornado wrecks it but not your house.