I first encountered djb's work back in the 90's with qmail and djbdns, where he took a very different and compartmentalized approach to the more common monolith

I first encountered djb's work back in the 90's with qmail and djbdns, where he took a very different and compartmentalized approach to the more common monolithic tooling for running email and DNS. I'd even opine that the structure of these programs are direct ancestors to modern microservice architectures, except using unix stdio and other unix isolation mechanisms. He's definitely opinionated, and I can understand people being annoyed with someone who is vociferous in their disagreement and questioning the motives of others, but given the occasional bad faith and subversion we see by large organizations in the cryptography space, it's nice to have someone hypervigilant in that area. I generally think that if djb thinks something is OK in terms of cryptograpy, it's passed a very high analytical bar.