[asdajksah2123]

He's given clear recommendations.

Mobile FOSS is important. He has a position where a simple blog post by him can reach the HN front pages. It's a good thing that he's putting his opinion out there in a constructive fashion to help prevent mobile FOSS from decaying.

It would be one thing if he went all Twitter and started telling everyone to leave Pine otherwise they would be morally equivalent to Hitler.

That's not what he did. He has pointed out several alternative steps Pine can take and what he believes the outcome would be, while also pointing out a simple constructive step that he believes would help remedy not just this specific situation, but long term, perhaps irreparable, damage to mobile FOSS.

This comes across as an unambiguously good post to me.

[ocdtrekkie]

I think both Martijn and Drew have their hearts in the right place, but I strongly feel a giant blogroll of criticism posts headlining HN for three days is just going to kill the mobile FOSS ecosystem (or leave it only to Librem, which prices out most folks). And the complaint can't be separated from the fact that... people just don't like that Manjaro is the selected "default". Because a default was and is sorely needed, and of course, now that there is one, people have opinions on it.

[nominusllc]

There's no denying its entertainment value, but I agree, it does hold us back as a field of study where progress is sorely needed.

It's clear there's a lot of he-said she-said, with some truths mixed in, but what's clear is that the two sides are different paths in the road to the same destination. It's sad that we can't make it to the finish line as a team, but that's life, and that's okay.