Controversy is a less emotionally loaded term for the same thing (drama/dramatic, toxicity/toxic, harmful/harming). Because of that, it receives more credit in

Controversy is a less emotionally loaded term for the same thing (drama/dramatic, toxicity/toxic, harmful/harming). Because of that, it receives more credit in a logic argument. You are on about direct user impact, where a project discontinuing is perhaps an ultimate one (EOL being moved 8 years in advance is almost that). Regarding OpenBSD, that isn't the only occurrence. You can grep mailing list archives for some keywords. Look at how people like Daniel Hartmeier, Niels Provos, and Wim Vandeputte got treated. Sure, it did not cause OpenBSD to collapse but I would say it was controversy.