Well, the complainers just got what they had coming, no more sharing from this developer. In US it's called 'looking a gift horse in the mouth'.
There is no magic wand solution for this. @Cobra is one of the few community developers who offered rock solid code. How do you deal with the apps that are not so solid? Who decides this? Who accepts responsibility for support? Etc. Etc. The reason Hubitat has always said that we don't support user apps and drivers is because it has been demonstrated time and time again that these are frequently the source of major problems for the hubs they are installed on. Not Cobra's, but many others. See this post for a great example: