But it didn't start off that way. I shepherded it -almost entirely alone- for a decade, before I found a dedicated, motivated team that I trusted to take it over.
They have done wonders for it. Most of its explosive expansion has taken off, under their watch.
Walking away from it was the best thing that I could do for it. The last thing these folks need, is a "Benevolent Dictator," peering over their shoulders, and giving suggestions.
During the gestation decade, I had to be a not-so-benevolent dictator, many times, as people tried to take it over, change it to suit narrow sub-demographics (at the expense of everyone else), and even change its entire raison d'etre. I got a ton of pretty vicious hate mail and there are people that still hate me (I cry myself to sleep over that, every night), after a decade. In one instance, I had to wait until one nasty old bastard popped his clogs, before I could spread it to the entire Pacific Northwest.
During that time, I learned how not to behave. A lot of that hate, was because I'm actually pretty good at slapping back, but I really needed to learn diplomacy. Even when they are nasty, and we are right, we often need to just swallow our pride, and let the dervishes whirl.
I don't miss working on it, and I'm really glad the new team are doing so good with it. I suspect there's very little of my original code in it, but the team mindset is still very much what I established.
I am about to release a project that actually uses that infrastructure as a feeder to my backend.