This is a pretty one-sided recollection of events. The main issue was caused by actix-web's adoption outgrowing the original author's goals. It should have been

This is a pretty one-sided recollection of events. The main issue was caused by actix-web's adoption outgrowing the original author's goals. It should have been a good thing and there were better ways to deal with the situation, like encouraging the community to fork the project. (And what happened in the end is the opposite, he forked his own projects and clearly labeled them as being personal). You cannot have it both ways, if you create an org on GitHub, a website, speak as a team "we"... seeing adoption will bring some expectations from your users and contributors, that are typically not just to beat other frameworks at TechEmpower benchmarks. I don't think many people want to use a performance experiment. To be clear, I'm sure he also received a lot of unwarranted criticism, but that happens everywhere. It doesn't justify being hostile to legit contributions.