Most of my feed on the #xzorcist#xz mess is solution-eering on ideas for paying maintainers. It implies the way to fix this is to simply pay people for their time.
I am not seeing something else though. Has anyone actually asked the maintainer what they want? What if that answer was not money? What if it was "I don't want to do this anymore?"
Regardless of the answer this time around, we should be prepared to boldly face these types of answers too.
