Auto-closing threads: Why?

If I wish two reply to a 2-year-old closed topic, shall I manually mention all the users of old thread when creating new thread?

Is it OK to post “bump” posts to pre-RFCs I care about to prevent them getting auto-closed? Maybe receiving a vote should also reset the timeout counter?

If closed-by-timeout therad was a “pre-RFC”, shall I also name the new thread “pre-RFC”? Shall I copy the content from old thread or just link?

Or are old “abandoned” pre-RFCs now implicitly closed instead of implicitly postponed? The next step may be auto-locking old Github issues then…

Example of a thread that was revived: pre-RFC: life-before-main / lib init

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