It's a reality that plugin developers quietly drop support for their plugins when they become busy with other things or just lose interest. Given that they've contributed their work for free, we can't complain all that much.
However, this support drops off without any indication except if you happen to visit the plugin's page in the WordPress repository and notice that there haven't been updates in a while.
The Enhanced Plugin Admin plugin aims to save you time and warn you about potential problems by displaying the:
- Last update date below every plugin description on your site's plugin page. This will be colored red when a plugin hasn't been updated by the developer in 24 months.
- Ratings and the number of votes. This will be colored red when the user rating in the repository drops below 75 out of 100.
Note that this info is available only for plugins that are hosted in the WordPress Plugin Repository.