You can't boil what happened down into a black-or-white simplification. Because what happened is more complicated than that. Some people went over the line, abs

You can't boil what happened down into a black-or-white simplification. Because what happened is more complicated than that. Some people went over the line, absolutely, but that doesn't mean any criticism of the project was overblown or inappropriate. Lodging criticism against a project doesn't have to imply any sort of obligation on anyone. There was some pretty bad misuse of unsafe in actix-web. And as I recall it, the author was resistant to fixing it, even when patches were provided. This is the author's right. It's their project. But it's anyone else's right to make this sort of thing visible, and to advocate against holding up actix-web (at the time) as a good example of what Rust programmers could deliver. A lot of people can't or won't communicate effectively, and often blur these lines. Either assuming there is entitlement where there is none, or expressing entitlement when they didn't mean to. But there is a reasonable position underlying what happened, and unfortunately some took it too far.