The author addresses exactly those sorts of talks you discuss, including explicitly showing how Evan made fun of the author after, even politely, making a criticism (if you could even call it that) of the language.
This is one of the major things that turned me off of Elm after having used it for a few years, the transformation of its supporters to essentially becoming fanboys instead, insisting that Evan could do no wrong, and that the very real criticisms of the community were merely "entitlements." The community simply became cult like in a way I have not seen before or since, in any language or technology discussion. Even in this thread you have people saying to avoid reading the article entirely and that surely the language is not dead despite not having a new version in almost 7 years.
Creators can make whatever decisions they want, but consumers can do so just as well, opting largely to leave the language and ecosystem.
This is one of the major things that turned me off of Elm after having used it for a few years, the transformation of its supporters to essentially becoming fanboys instead, insisting that Evan could do no wrong, and that the very real criticisms of the community were merely "entitlements." The community simply became cult like in a way I have not seen before or since, in any language or technology discussion. Even in this thread you have people saying to avoid reading the article entirely and that surely the language is not dead despite not having a new version in almost 7 years.
Creators can make whatever decisions they want, but consumers can do so just as well, opting largely to leave the language and ecosystem.