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> It was the ability to respond, within hours, to a change made on any given site. I.e. youtube-dl stopped working? No problem, file an issue, wait a day, solved.

That's funny. You must have not been around on the repo for the last six to eight months. It was practically abandoned, with several broken extractors not being addressed, and essential PRs being ignored for months or even years. See this: https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://webcache.googleusercon...

As an example, take the tiktok extractor, which was (and is still) broken for almost a year without even being acknowledged by the maintainers:

https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://webcache.googleusercon...

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