The Maintainer Meltdown: Why Open Source's Unsung Heroes Are Burning Out—and What the Kubernetes Ingress Fiasco Tells Us

Introduction Picture this: You&apos;re elbow-deep in orchestrating a massive Kubernetes setup for a high-stakes client. Routing traffic in and out? That&apos;s the job of the reliable old Ingress NGINX controller—the open-source Swiss Army knife that&apos;s been quietly keeping services