Keeping the history of the evolution and the rationale for each iteration was great. It's really good insight into the evolution of the thinking for a passionate community team that is doing its best to communicate why their efforts should be considered by others.
I wanted to chime in and say I'm sorry so much of the crticism on HN failed to stay on the right side of constructive. You and your team deserve more respect than that.
What's triggering people, likey fans rust fans sadly enough, is seeing their identity and fandom slipping away from focus. If this page had been presented as a why-rust.org splash page instead of a replacement for a treasured resource I'm sure those same vitrolic people would have been ambivalent at worst.
I like the new page. I'd hate to lose the old one, even if it moves to a rust-doc.org domain or something. And maybe a link to it from the splash page!