Not sure he explicitly said that, but he’s said that there’s a bunch of technical debt he wants to fix through refactoring etc, which will be v0.23, I’m not sure path goes to V1 next (at least directly) but it may. He also stopped accepting donations in Jan saying that he felt like donations came with expectations. I’m not saying it’s not reasonable, just that the whole ethos behind PocketBase is “I’m building this, you folks are all welcome to use it, but I don’t owe you anything” (completely fairly).

Asking “will it survive” is the wrong question. It’s already there, works, and is used by thousands of people. Whether it gets updates or not depends entirely on whether Gani wants to and is able to keep updating it. No one can answer that except Gani, and he’s saying “no promises”.