And if something is "broken", "wrong", "bad code", "incomplete", then submit some patches to fix the problem! This is why we have peer review, so that different eyeballs get a perspective on possible flaws in the code.
No, the problem is that if no one has maintained a module in years, we are doing our users a big disservice by shipping broken and unmaintained code. One way to indicate that is not ship them by default any longer. They'd still be available if you relied upon them. -- justin