Latest update to WP-Crontol plugin breaks WordPress sites (wordpress.org)

This affected two of my sites (https://librevideo.org and https://amd-now.com). I discovered the problem after scanning my logs and finding this entry:

    PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Failed opening required '/home/amdnowcom/amd-now.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-crontrol/vendor/autoload.php'

Searching the plugin's name lead me to the support forum I linked above. Once I discovered that, I just deleted the plugin's files and it resolved the issue for me for now. Not sure if I want to reinstall it until I hear the postmortem. Seems the deployment to WordPress.org's plugin site missed a step (including the /vendors directory).

The plugin maintainer is aware of the issue and is working on it from what I could see in multiple posts. I can only imagine how stressed he must be, so he has my sympathies, but at the same time, it's a pretty major error, so hopefully in the future WordPress can provide some better guardrails against an error plugin breaking so catastrophically like this after an update.