The current way the project references the maintainers and creators sounds way personalist, IMHO.
I've recently run into https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors and I'm thinking about applying it here in order to make all contributors as visible.
@amureki and @timjklein36 if you have other tools to achieve similar results, let me know and I'll be happy to take a look at them. But I feel moving away from such type of readme would be important to make the project more attractive to collaborations.