If you are interested in maintaining it, there is a process to take ownership of the hex package. You have to have emailed the owner and had no response after 30 days, then persuade the hex team to give you ownership.

The standard open source answer is to simply fork the repo and move on.

Namespace clutter is not good for the enviroment IMO. I mean sometimes it’s necessary, but I’d rather not see the hex-space end up like the npm namespace. Sometimes there’s just too much code.

I believe it to be worthwhile to have a few good libraries rather then dozens of personal flavors. They should be welcome, but not the normal way to do things. Again IMHO.