yt-dlc was forked off of youtube-dl during the youtube-dl takedown last year, but has itself been largely unmaintained for months. yt-dlp [1] appears to be by far the most active fork.
Cut one head of an hydra and more will pop-up. I keep both of them around, they work fine.
People shouldn't underestimate how many of ingredients that allow that to be true have been eroding away in the last decade or so. I don't think the resilience we've witnessed in the past to centralized control is a guarantee or in any way like an internet law of nature.