Well surely evangelization doesn't absolve a technical leader for choosing to rely on a BDFL project that's pre 1.0. People are welcome to their opinions, but

Well surely evangelization doesn't absolve a technical leader for choosing to rely on a BDFL project that's pre 1.0. People are welcome to their opinions, but I don't see a rug pull, I see a grad student who created a project that people enjoyed and a few companies offered to fund. Evan clearly wanted to maintain control over direction and stepping away from open source is completely acceptable and not uncommon for the very reasons on display here. People have completely unreasonable expectations from maintainers of free software.