All good things must come to an end. I've decided to end the Funtoo Linux project. Funtoo started as a philosophy to create a fun community of contributors building something great together. For me, it's no longer that so I need to move on to other things. There is not a successor BDFL for Funtoo...
But he is right. As long as a distro is maintained by one individual, it is at risk of being discontinued at any time he can no longer maintain it.