> dnsmasq has served me well for like an eternity in multiple setups for different use cases. As all software it has bugs. And once located those get fixed. Its author is also easy to communicate with.

I concur. The last part, however, is quite worrisome. Dnsmasq is ran by one person, published on their own git and I did not see any information about other maintainers.

It is a super important (and great, and useful, and everything) software and i have fears of what will happen one day.

Sure, someone can clone and push to github but it may seriously fragment the ecosystem.