I read an article about MySQL and the guy wrote something like "due to the low additions (trend) of source code in the last months (in the MySQL GIT)” he sees a dark future for MySQL”.
After the OPTIMIST, I see a PESSIMIST…
I do not use it, so 
Next time add a link to the article.
Edit: I’ve found an open source contributor opinion matching a bit what you said. All I can say is that MariaDB deserves a proper separated support (driver, full featured) as it takes more attention from the open source community than MySQL, because Oracle want their paid options being the best ones compared to their semi “open source” one.
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The biggest issue I had with MySQL was that Oracle kept changing their mind for the hosting community. When I had my own business 20 years ago, we hosted websites for our customers and figuring out who had to pay the licensing fees and who didn’t was onerous. That was the #1 driver of us moving customers to Postgres back then.
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PostgreSQL is my preferred way too for new projects, but MySQL is very prevalent as legacy all around the internet. For a less painful transition, a MariaDB conversion of the legacy could satisfy most people without changes because it was designed to do so. It’s like a “MySQL Plus”.