If the user base decides they don’t like it, then Fritzing dies very likely. If the user base already using Fritzing, values it and contributes (and there are a lot of them) maybe Fritizng survives. If someone has a workable alternative (and I don’t or I would have suggested it), I’m sure the developers would love to hear it. I admit it will probably slow new user uptake, but there is a huge (the estimate from folks that should know is 200K or more users) user base that knows Fritzing and may be willing to support it in the form of a donation to download a new release (the first one in three years .) If not, then it is likely game over. As I have said before I have been trying for 2+ years to find volunteers to restart development and I was the only one I am aware of working on it. The new folks, in 6 or 8 months have a release tool chain working for all platforms (it took me more than a year to get Linux and Windows, without the Mac working) and are close to a release. I know who I would bet on. There is no evidence I know of that volunteers will be the answer. Note even with development restarting, there have been no new pull requests (at least that I have seen) for fixes from external volunteers (including me although I have a couple in the pre release.) The evidence to date indicate that way lies the end of Fritzing as it gets too old. If the 0.9.4 release makes it out that will put that doom off a few years, but the clock will still be ticking as QT and the underlying OS versions change. Rather than saying “I don’t like”, suggest an alternative (or submit a part to the core parts repo or a fix to the code base, none of which are happening now, again including me for various reasons) …
Peter