Given the huge ambitions of the project maintainers and how everyone's rushing to adopt it even amidst sloppy integration work, yes, the criticism is worth it.

Given the huge ambitions of the project maintainers and how everyone's rushing to adopt it even amidst sloppy integration work, yes, the criticism is worth it. "The alternatives are certainly not perfect" is no consolation. At all. Especially considering the vast majority were never fairly considered to begin with.