The code your biz is relying on is written by someone.

[KillyMXI]

You've probably heard about this: https://github.com/zloirock/core-js/blob/master/docs/2023-02-14-so-whats-next.md
If no, then read it! Seriously!

Some coverage:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/111k9aq/corejs_maintainer_so_whats_next/
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/15/corejs_russia_open_source/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34780859

I hope this will get much deserved response for the guy.
This also underlines the issue that exists for every other enthusiastic open-source developer. It will remain unsolved for everyone else.

MIT license and package managers are great achievements the humankind can benefit from as a whole. Maybe it is too convenient, and we are not ready for it yet? Humankind haven't progressed much in ways to make it sustainable for valuable contributors. Would we see Universal Basic Income widespread in our lifetimes? I can't see what can be done locally to reward all individual package maintainers fairly.

I can relate to the guy. Even though I was able to leave the country, I'm now caught in a "groundhog day", trying to meet my ends, stuck to projects that just pay the bills but give no time to up the game and turn to my favor, and can't get enough time for this project. Heck, I can't even ask for donations at the moment because there are still riddles that require time, money and mental capacity to solve... (**)

Why have I picked html-to-text to maintain? Because I had some use for it in a small hobby project.
Why I kept doing it? Because I had a lot of ideas and I enjoy tinkering with tools more than actually using them myself.
There was no commercial benefit for me, no financial backing since I represent no company (*).
This project isn't very beneficial for my portfolio since I'm more of a C# dev than a web dev.
Really foolish. But here I am, with a bunch of JS packages, not planning to drop them but also having trouble to give them all attention they need.

(*) full disclosure: there were a couple of donations, and at some point, I had a client interested in a feature and sponsored something like 25 hours of work iirc, but decided to follow a different route before the feature was completed. It's a pleasure to be paid for what I like to work on, but it didn't last.
In fact, sponsored work on any of my packages is the way to support me that is easy to do currently. But that's not something that comes up often. Even that client I found through a freelance job posting and figured I have an almost ready solution.

(**) The ko-fi link is currently non-functional. It only accepts payment methods no longer available to me. You'd be surprised how many conveniences are unavailable once you get out of the first world economy bubble.