For a project like this, relying on AI assistance also makes it effectively dead in the water.

It's possible, but we're at the moment when most of us can ask Fable to implement a custom compiler to a custom target for our favorite language, and even use it as a part of custom solution. Why do I need someone else's implementation? Where's the magic in this project? What's the secret sauce?

it will be impossible to maintain parity with wetware

Then the question is why? Because that is an another way of saying donating tokens.