I apologize for my perhaps slightly-irritated tone, but this is really enraging me. I really wish Mozilla would reconsider this, and put the reversal very high up on the importance scale.
I only learned of the CV project when I saw this app on F-Droid. It seemed great to me – people often say I have a “weird accent” in several languages, speech-to-text hates me, etc. Being able to contribute and improve a free voice database (and benefit myself and others down the line) would be pleasing to me.
The mobile site didn’t work well and I’m not often at a laptop/desktop, so the lovely, FOSS app, made out of love for the purpose, and which is clearly labelled as unofficial all over, seemed like a no-brainer.
And you want to have him discontinue it? It really seems like a case of looking the gift horse in the mouth. And cutting off a stream of contributors is just a shame.
If you insist on discontinuing it, I and other contributors would absolutely require a major overhaul of the mobile site to work on devices that cost less than $700… or else contributions would be hardly possible!