It ... Kinda is? The company started the project long before I showed up, continues to profit from the project, and is absolutely going to reap the rewards of refusing to maintain the stupid thing. This isn't about other people refusing to help with my favorite pet project, it's the company refusing to act and its own best interests.

Why do many companies have internal projects that do the same as well known open source software? Because someone was bored, or wanted job security, or wanted to feel needed.

You should not start a project if a readily available, production-strength alternative exists unless you have a very good reason.

Internal projects usually arw underfunded and have bad UI.