My first impression of the quote is that any language that gains enough users will find people who complain about it. However, I agree that his main point is m

My first impression of the quote is that any language that gains enough users will find people who complain about it. However, I agree that his main point is more that you will never be able to design a language that is useful to a large number of people without making compromises, and with any compromise there will be at least one person for which it is not the optimal solution. I don't want to say the relationship between elegance and popularity is strict though. There is simply a good correlation.