I don't follow the politics behind the project, but to me the biggest indicator of something awry was D7 still not being acceptable for a production site. It's

I don't follow the politics behind the project, but to me the biggest indicator of something awry was D7 still not being acceptable for a production site. It's much more fragile than D6 and the post clearly illustrates why, with the issue counts. I recently had to help a rather technical client simply get D7 -running- with common modules. They'd have been better off simply installing D6, which they'd done before without any voodoo needed.