My point is that all the FUD about "exa" being deprecated is just that - FUD. It's still open source and it can be forked and carried on, just like vi did. The "exa/eza" forks might even be more compatible with each other than the various vi forks/rewrites out there, although admittedly exa is a much simpler tool.

I think we're witnessing a weird fetishization of POSIX and/or GNU coreutils, like they are the epitome of stability, compatibility and continuity, but if you look at them historically, they are not so different from all these Rust rewrites.