I don't believe IA itself takes down pages that kiwifarms archives/links to. Rather they get a request to take it down and comply with it (correct me if I'm wrong here). I think IA is actually in a tough spot on this issue because they might be able to be sued eg. for defamation if they don't take down pages with personal info after a request to do so is made. Lastly, I doubt any new leadership would be less harsh on kiwifarms.
There was no illegal content on kiwi farms. Even then, I’d say taking down a single page by request is understandable. However, they surrendered to the mob and chose to stop archiving the entire site. This was to censor any criticism of the people involved, but as a result, we lost all of the other information on the rest of the site as well. It’s clear this organization cannot handle pressure, and is relying on people treating it kindly.
There’s not much maintenance work. There are very few bugs, as the core applications have been running for decades, most come up with interactions to external services.
Any major development projects are only in service of lower overall COBOL development time, like transitioning some business logic to database updates.
And there is a decommission plan for the mainframe, so plenty of work helping that team.