> Some people can't switch immediately. A patch should be made available, and the module should be depreciated

Maybe that's what should happen, but it's not what will happen.

The module is unmaintained. Who do you suggest should do it? Will you? If not then you're just demanding that work should be done somewhere, by someone else, without providing any path or resources for it. That's just not how freely contributed and shared labour works.

It's a risk you take on when you use that free resource, and why it matters to contribute back to the ecosystem that you're using free of charge. Frankly, if you've been using the freely available module for this long then you're already ahead of where you were before.

"This software is broken so you shouldn't use it" is absolutely a perfectly reasonable solution to the problem, and nobody owes you anything more.