unless its a very focused project/crate that is basically "done" and doesn't need further development (although those then trigger people along the lines of "can't use this, this looks unmaintained")

could you expand on what you mean by slower releases? projects that release more infrequently often* accumulate huge sets of changes that are then impractical to review, and at the other end of the spectrum deps would need to slow down development, which may also be undesirable