Honestly better this way, in my opinion. I don't care for the auto archival even remotely. I've come back to games many times. 'The light left on', I believe, would have a not-0 number of GMs more easily return after a period, saying something in OOC and maybe informally generating energy and interest again. This is an order of magnitude easier socially, than PMing people about it or something, then unarchiving a game. Personally I run games that typically no one even bothers dreaming trying to take over, so I believe that's not always applicable even if feasible here.