Comment by pie_flavor
1 year ago
Actually, it comes from the concrete complaints specified in the article, such as the total exclusion from official Elm spaces if you try to fix your own problems. If it was what you described, i.e. the inability to do things within the packaging ecosystem, that would be acceptable; that was the status quo in 0.18 and everyone dealt with it.
The basis for calling complaints about functionality 'entitlement' is that you put it into the world because you want to, and the default avenue for other people getting what they want is to put it into the world themselves. If you lure people to get invested in your project, cause a problem for anyone invested in your project, and attempt to prevent them from solving their problem themselves, then you are behaving irresponsibly and complaints about this do not stem from 'entitlement'.
To Elm's supporters, Evan can do no wrong (because anyone who disagrees is ejected from the community, of course), creating a cult-like following that only gets more insular as times goes on. Thankfully, it seems to have gotten so insular that the language has essentially now died out.