Comment by dasil003

Yeah I think you summed this up nicely. "Entitlement" is an easy go-to explanation since the internet is filled with it, but it's one sided. If you're pitching a language to people and they put a lot of energy into building on it, only to have their work permanently broken with no workarounds, you're going to get blowback. At the end of the day, Elm core team is free to make their own decisions, but they have to live with the consequences of those decisions. They are no more entitled for their users to remain silent than their users are to demand a certain technical direction.

This is why open source governance is so important. Technical excellence is orthogonal to community management excellence, and you can't scale an open source project without some measure of the latter.