Comment by rossjudson

You say, "This sort of behavior should not be acceptable from any open source maintainer that runs such a large, foundational part of the ecosystem."

Or what? What's the "punishment" here? Who's going to decide what's acceptable, and what's not?

Seems like you are demanding that the author of Actix do what you want.

Sometimes people take their football and go home. In this case the vocal complaining minority are free to make their own copy of the football, and proceed on their own...which is also known as "put up or shut up".