"We can do better" is a dodge. It avoids "I can do better" with a kind of royal "we" that implies other people should do the work. The obvious response to "I ca

"We can do better" is a dodge. It avoids "I can do better" with a kind of royal "we" that implies other people should do the work. The obvious response to "I can do better" is "okay, go ahead". "We can do better" tries to tell me that I should be working on this guy's problem. That I should buy his line about how important "decentralization" is. There's a place for software criticism. But the best comes in the form of just writing better software, or improving what we've already got. Calling somebody else's project a "shiny turd", on the other hand, isn't even really criticism. It's name calling.