The criticism is because they didn't just go their way. I have problems with: 1) start of Mir resulted in Canonical not doing some Wayland commitments 2) start

The criticism is because they didn't just go their way. I have problems with: 1) start of Mir resulted in Canonical not doing some Wayland commitments 2) start of Mir was kept secret for at least 6 months 3) loads of incorrect statements about Wayland that (despite retracting their claims) loads other people still assume is true 4) the reason for doing this has never been clarified 5) it other software to behave buggy. E.g. Wayland on this Ubuntu is problematic (see Phoronix); all kind of problems you won't find on any other distribution. It shouldn't be affected but it is. Wastes time of loads of people by a decision Canonical made without any clear benefit or reason. In brief: People are _not_ being toxic. There are various very good reasons to question the decision.