The problem of a "rules above everything" mentality is that we often have errors in special cases....I'm pretty sure that's quite past the site's criteria for the tag ya know.
In the present case, for what I know, the dev has been releasing updates with lots of time between them for almost 10 years, never failing a single year. So, I believe that this game is a pretty special case.
But since it's so important to say "don't expect fast updates", wouldn't "on hold" be a better tag instead of "abandoned"?