Why not all targets are being built in stable releases?

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Title should speak for itself. I recently noticed, that in stable releases (or firmware selector) there are missing firmwares for some routers.
Example I have found:

Release 22.03.7 contains:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/22.03.7/targets/ramips/mt76x8/openwrt-22.03.7-ramips-mt76x8-asus_rt-n11p-b1-initramfs-kernel.bin

So logically, the newer release 23.05.4 should have:
https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/23.05.4/targets/ramips/mt76x8/openwrt-23.05.4-ramips-mt76x8-asus_rt-n11p-b1-initramfs-kernel.bin

but that does not exists. Is that intended omitting of firmwares, or an issue with build scripts?

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Usually this is because they have stopped working with current drivers/kernel and maybe someone is trying to fix it before the device disappears for ever.

Or the device hardware resources is to small to work anymore.

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Build was disabled for devices with only 32MiB of RAM with this commit:
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=f5cb556d4f70e7aac428857fe782b58ece0cf188

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