State of Kaniko: Unmaintained?

It seems that all the remaining maintainers of this project have retired. Could we get some clarification regarding Kaniko's development situation right now? Is the project being abandoned?

The Gitlab CI docs, for example, reference Kaniko as the first choice when it comes to building container images without doing privileged Docker-in-Docker. Buildah has emerged as an alternative since, but it requires using vfs (which slows down builds quite a bit) and seems to require additional privileges on containers now, which kind of ruins the point.

Thank you in advance.