> Maintainers need to realize that there is lots of niche software out there
> that is effectively unmaintained (and thus will never get ported to Python 3
> etc.), but that works, fulfills some task, and has no more recent
> alternative available. What should people relying on such software do?

Either figure out a way to get people to maintain the software, or
figure out a way to get people to develop a replacement, or keep using
the unmaintained software on equally unmaintained older versions of
operating systems that it will run on.