I personally don’t see a correlation between material supplies being short (especially during a pandemic) and software support, but yes, GF said very very on that they will release their firmware if they go belly-up. Here’s the link to the announcement from Dan.
By posting this here you’ve opened an official support ticket that a staff member has to address, so it might be best to move this to a more appropriate category like “Everything Else”. I’ll be happy to do that for you if you like?