Who said it was dead or dying? That would be news to me, and I am the lead maintainer. I think you might be making a bit of an assumption. Just because there hasn't been any commits in 3 or 4 months doesn't mean it's dead. When I joined the team, nobody had committed anything for 2 years. 8.2 is relatively new, so I am not surprised that things are not working there. Perhaps submit an official issue for any failures you are seeing on 8.2? I can't help fix issues I don't know exist.

With that said, if you would like some transparency, I am happy to provide some. I have been the only person contributing any significant amount of code to the project for over a year now. Unfortunately, all other maintainers/contributors have either left due to other interests or have silently gone incognito. I wish there were more of us, but there is not. I've given up on recruiting efforts. Now I just fix things that are within my skillet as they arise. I led a team of devs last Winter that had a lot of success using WP Rig to build out high traffic corp website.

So no, it's not dead.

Thanks for answering!
I did figure you would be the one to do so, if anyone. I have noted that most of the commits have come from you.

To my defense I did phrase it as a question. :-)

I am grateful to you that you are holding out, as it seems, on your own.

I based what I said on non-responses to my questions, as well as to a bug report (#837 (comment)) that I have experienced as well. I am not a heavy-duty developer so I have no need for new features. Just keeping dependencies current would receive five stars from me.

I think @zedebugger did submit an official issue (quite serious from a UX perspective but easily fixed with some z-index trickery) that never received any attention (link above), but I'll try to figure out how to submit a pull request and propose a code addition to deal with the "invisible menu issue".

I am happy you are still committed to the project.