If you are serious in supporting this project, a way to prevent that is by sponsoring the project via the authors Patreon or if he applies for GitHub sponsorship. This has worked for projects like the Zig Programming Language, etc.
This used to be a problem in the past but not anymore. I would really like to finally see Rust's answser to having a non-Electron cross-platform GUI library.
Some charge money for developing products, and it leads to sustained development. Some call those commercial products, and have a tendency to work well. The source can still be open, as open source doesnt have to be free. But many dont want to pay for products, want them free, and at the expense of others.
This used to be a problem in the past but not anymore. I would really like to finally see Rust's answser to having a non-Electron cross-platform GUI library.