I believe the question was: “Pathetic in what way?”

Please enlighten us.

smartphone app

It’s a PWA, just install the site on your phone as a native app. I’ve been using it for about a year.

Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?

Not according to that thread - it looks like they don’t yet know what caused it:

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114178916120483761

No any details from GitHub yet. One contributor mentioned a temporary visit to disputed areas a long time ago — GitHub probably just flagged the account, and their bots messed up after that.

“Rare”

Come on. Any “buy it for life” product will fall in that category. Safety razor for example.