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Not changing since 2022 is a feature, not a bug. It's an exchange format, so it was never going to switch KDFs just for funsies, and scrypt is fine.

age is intentionally stable as a format and as a core tool.

There is a lot of activity in the integration and plugin ecosystem, which I am very happy about. https://github.com/FiloSottile/awesome-age

I have a wishlist for v2 changes, and I am considering slowly and carefully making such a release this year, but the difference in security between scrypt and Argon2 doesn't really justify making a change there.

I wouldn't describe age as having stagnated, it's simply stable. It has a well defined spec which it fully implements (seemingly correctly), so there isn't any need for more recent releases.

Also I think it's a bit sly to not mention that you're the creator of the alternative you suggest.