But "a few months" isn't 5 years, right? Last update in January 2025 seems fine for a lot of things. If that was January 2020 I'd probably bypass it as well.
As in, "I've personally witnessed people passing over mature libraries that just don't need any more updates in favor of ones that aren't really production ready but get frequent updates, which causes quite a bad dev experience down the line".
I am not really good at articulating my thoughts properly, so thanks for making me write this longer comment.