I am shocked I tell you, schocked. Who woulda thunk that blindly obeying any DMCA request, legitimate or not, would result in this? Absolutely unpredictable that companies would wildly abuse this power instead of using it responsibly...
youtube-dl was in a similar spot and it came out unscathed because unlike the wet noodles developing Tachiyomi their devs had the spine to at least use the means available to try and avert removal, which ultimately worked.
It'll be interesting watching this develop further but given the devs and their decision I see a bleak future ahead, next up on the chopping block due to DMCA will be the 3rd party extension repo feature. Why would this scummy corpo stop after all? Not like they get any pushback for this blatant bullying.
Edit: looking at the dev response to this, the project just died. Instead of talking with the community and accepting some blame they just lock down and censor. No idea how it looks like in their discord server but likely nobody there is allowed to talk about this either.
Guess I'll have to wait and see which fork pulls through and becomes the main one.