[harperlee]

Schema and spec do not target the same functionality.

In general I agree that it would be best if a small community does not spread itself too thin, but on the other hand, can't Hickey, Miller et al work on what they are interested in? They have published rationales for why those "splintering" works are of interest and they make sense. It seems incongruent to happily use a tool that was born out of an opinionated design, and then complain when the authors keeps pushing their opinionated PL design.