Years ago it came to light that NTP (and OpenSSL if I remember right) were being run by like.. one dude (4 staff for OpenSSL?) on the tiniest trickle of donations, despite how vital the service was. It's a long time since I became aware so I may have misremembered.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2347:_Dependency

Aw. Shit.

Oh shit. Why did I immediately think of the NTP guy. Should we check in on him, is he OK?