Default to Buildah due to Kaniko being unmaintained?

Due to completely unrelated reasons, I ended up finding this issue (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/issues/3348) on the Kaniko GitHub issue tracker pointing to an MR removing the last 2 maintainers of the project (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/pull/3345) and confirmation from those maintainers that they are no longer involved (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/kaniko/discussions/3316#discussioncomment-10965197). The last change to the repo was 4 months ago, and was also the removal of a maintainer, and the last release was back in July.

Because of this, I was wondering if it would be preferable to use buildah as the default building tool in the next major version of the component?