CorvusRuber I don't think sol development really even started, so there's nothing to kill here....
Development on the new go-based pkg management stuff happened in a private repo that only one team member had access to. Said team member did infrequent code drops to public repos, so the rest of the team didn't really have much to go on after said team member decided to leave.
Had the team member in question decided to do development in public in a personal repo, Solus could have at least picked up where they left off, but this was not to be.
C'est la vie.