> IMO the maintenance story is more or less solved if you can keep AI agents refactoring and improving it in a loop.

That’s a weak argument, though, if the future of AI is totally unreliable when it comes to cost and quality. Right now I definitely wouldn’t want to depend on being able to infinitely access AI tools for such an important part of the toolchain.

Aside from that it’s just not attractive to trust a project made by one person.