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> The leadership didn't respect the opinions or capability of its end users

This was the major sticking point for me when it came to Elm. I invested a lot of time into Elm and even published a few packages. Many things contributed to my giving up Elm, but the final straw for me was when the core team removed some userland APIs under the guise of "we can't trust developers not to use these to write bad code". Myself and several others tried to convince Evan to reverse this decision, to no avail.