@0x4d6165@wanderingwires.net man, Nix the the definition of sunk cost. The idea is generally pretty good; but the implementation is horribly flawed and the community is ruled by personalities and norms too intransigent to allow any real fix of it. Of any other technological idea, the thing would have been left for a hard fork or fresh start, but absolutely no one wants to go through the hell of rewriting all of the build files nor try to get another round of upstream patches needed to support whatever comes next.

So it's just ... stuck, stale like you said.