[IfOnlyYouKnew]

This is an excellent summary, at least for the pros and cons.

I find your take on the project leadership interesting, because it is a spot-on description of everything I found to be wrong with Elm. That BDFL was/is not so benevolent. Or maybe he’s well-meaning but terribly annoying. And the language has a mich better claim to being dead than Crystal, where I had not noticed any loss of momentum or activity on GitHub.

(You may well be right on those points as well, as you are clearly more knowledgeable about the dynamics)