Counterpoint: Ton is also one of the biggest reasons companies and individuals struggle to contribute bigger things to Blender. He’s very difficult to work with

Counterpoint: Ton is also one of the biggest reasons companies and individuals struggle to contribute bigger things to Blender. He’s very difficult to work with, and will quite often say really inflammatory things in other open source communities when he doesn’t understand them. A lot of the Blender redesign and big features is the community pushing over years to say: “this is what we need” and being shot down till someone finally breaks through. Many features stay in forks for ages because they get blanket statements turning it down until they’ve amassed enough hype in the community. See grease pencil and the 2.8+ redesign. I would give the most credit these days to the folks around him who are more willing to listen to the community and work directly with them.