Well, he doesn't owe anybody anything. On the contrary, I think it's generous that he still cares about the project.
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Sure. It's appropriate to say that the project is unmaintained if he doesn't plan to maintain it.
It's not unmaintained. There are at least three companies doing their own maintenance and development on a professional and organized level. Most even open source their results. And there are also individuals and groups working on forks. There is no "central institution" organizing a "main repository" as in Linux, but there is relevant progress and the will for a stable product in each of the forks.
I worked at Cloudflare, sometimes on luajit. When I find myself merging patches from random lua community members that will never be in an official point release to fix crashes in well-behaved lua code, I'm not sure what other word property describes the situation.
It may warm my heart to know that lukego, yichun, and siddhesh are also merging the same patch, but it doesn't really help.