I disagree with @[email protected] (sorry!)

Don’t say sorry for making an actual argument, or are you some Canadian lol?

at least 15 contributors left a few days ago

According to this list there are 3470 maintainers. Were those 15 doing so much work to warrant calling it the end of days?

What this means is that you risk your packages getting out of date, including slow delivery of security updates

A possible delay for some package updates vs certainly outdated packages in my native Debian. Not really a choice IMO