Equal earth projection

What is the status of the Equal Earth projection in Plotly? I see a lot of others but not this one. Yet Equal Earth is the one highly recommended projection for near-global choropleths and other use cases. Hence, for instance, NASAโ€™s use of it. I also find it on the more aesthetically pleasing side. I am loathe to redo all the customization work I did for my graphs with geopandas and matplotlib, but I also find it a bit weird that, instead of just making D3โ€™s projections available as is, you chose to gate them and make yourself the single point of failure/delay.

Sorry for the cranky tone, but having spent a couple of hour diving through documentation and code (and finding them completely out of sync), Iโ€™m currently regretting my choice of Plotly.