For what it is worth, I was trying not to make a value judgment on it, especially not with relation to this specific instance, I was hopefully just recognizing it as a motivating factor in general open source politics. Sometimes that is quite regretful because it is anti-democratic and does look like favoritism or worse cronyism when it plays out in that way of "we listened to the person/company that built and tested a prototype and did all the work to standardize and then PR it over the many developers that wanted an idea but didn't have the time/money/bandwidth to implement it themselves".
That's fair. I think I mostly reacted because of the sarcastic faux-outrage that the original comment I responded to expressed. These are hard problems, and I think the presumption should be someone being frustrated at the slow state of changes they want probably has legitimate reasons to feel that way, just as the presumption should be that open-source projects that have run successfully for a long time probably are making good-faith effort to steward what they're maintain. Acknowledging the tension between priorities not lining up exactly for everyone and not having knee-jerk reactions when someone is unhappy seems preferable to mocking those who you disagree with.