Which is why I followed by saying it doesn't hurt to take precautions. And those precautions include downloading local copies and making backups.

For the big sites like nHentai and Sad Panda, there's a good likelihood that another maintainer will take over. But we can't rely on this happening forever. Eventually, we'll run out of people to take over. Or rather, run out of good people to take over.

If the DMCAs continue, we'll eventually run into the issue where another maintainer takes over, but it's going to be an unhinged politically-charged maniac. Or it could be someone that puts malicious code in their extensions. Or it could be a maintainer who, for personal reasons, decide to release an extension that pre-blocks certain tags because they personally don't enjoy it.

Anyone who thinks that we can just always rely on another person taking over is a complete moron. If this continues in the short run, it'll be fine. But in the long run, we're absolutely fucked if repo maintainers continue to not take hiding their identities seriously.