What happens after deleting public addon?

Originally I wrote this as an e-mail to the AMO team but received an automatic response asking me to use this forum instead:

In short:
I want to delete my public addon for 3 reasons:

  1. Users lose their saved data for no obvious reason (see this post: Store.json (simple-storage) set back to default after FF crashes?)
  2. Don’t know if I got the time for migrating to WebExtensions
  3. Insulting user review (see this post: Cannot delete insulting user review)

@2) I do not know if I find the time to migrate the addon in time to webextensions (no idea how long this would take, because I never worked with that api).

Questions:
The addon currently has about 4000 daily users, so my question is what happens when I delete the addon? The users will be able to keep their currently installed version? And do they get informed somehow that the addon won’t be maintained/available any longer? If yes: where and how?

  1. Yes, keep.
  2. No, there is no notification, unless user actively view the AMO page and sees the notice that the add-on has been removed by the author. Users can no longer view and install it from AMO.
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