OP did not "go to <established project> and attemt to educate them". He wrote spaCy after looking at NLTK and noticed a difference in philosophy that could not

OP did not "go to <established project> and attemt to educate them". He wrote spaCy after looking at NLTK and noticed a difference in philosophy that could not be overcome by talking it over. The NLTK project has grown a community that values choice and, well, history I guess? The author knows that and does not want to be part of it and that is totally fine. He seems to understand the project goals, he just doesn't agree with them, so started from scratch and wrote a post about it, presenting a different way to do things. All of this is to say, I agree with some points you made but IMO this post is not part of the genre you mentioned.