I mean I get that, but they could have just said we're no longer developing this, because we're tired or whatever. I just think it's interesting they made such a strong stand.
I find this kind of interaction interesting having used both termite and alacritty. Honestly I would have never expected maintainers of what I perceived as a fairly popular terminal to just go, welp use the other guys. This is kind of neat.
I had already been using alacritty for a while because it had wayland support, even though it has some weird bugs on my current i3 setup where creating a new terminal just creates an unresponsive window that has to be killed through htop. Other than that it's been great, and there is something satisfying about cat /udev/random and the text that flies by with GPU acceleration.
For [0], libinput from what I've seen is supposed to take the place of linux-wacom. However I have only been playing with wacom fairly recently (I got one as a Christmas present) and haven't explored linux-wacom to see what is missing. I know with respect to libinput I have had difficulties getting the extra buttons on my tablet to work and some things have been a bit rough, but I don't know if that is due to me not understanding something or what.
TL;DR Theoretically libinput is a linux-wacom replacement.