well of course they were. it's hard to update or scale AI built crap because the vast majority of the time the agent will deny even building it and then re-write whatever it previously wrote from scratch.

Without reading the article, I assume this is because creating a successful app takes commitment, and vibe coding lets you code without commitment.

Churn is [now] easy.

Maintenance is [still] hard.

hahahaha

app flameout in record time

Even without vibe coding, writing an app from scratch has always been the easier/easiest part. The hard part is maintaining the app and keeping it alive over the years.

Maybe they work as expected and are feature complete

To be fair: This study looked at the repos after flathub had announced to not accept these apps any more. I would say it is surprising that development didn't stop everywhere immediately after that.