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Why does nobody maintain PPAs anymore?
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Because it's outdated. They are a lot of work and can cause package conflicts or errors, making the whole system less reliable.
If you need something, that's not in your package manager, then use Distrobox and create an Arch container, and use the AUR for example.
You can export the program after installing, and it integrates better into your system.
By doing that, the devs have to do the work only once and you will have less problems.
The devs only do the work once, it's the packagers that deal with mutability.