[tptacek]

Virtually none of the ideas that Bernstein talks about in here have anything to do with people adopting his implementations. Bernstein's packaging isn't why TLS uses PKCS1v15. It's not why elliptic curve signatures almost always require random ephemeral keys. It's not why userland programs scatter broken RNGs throughout their codebases instead of just tapping urandom. It's certainly not why the most popular modern cipher is one that requires either modern Intel hardware or side channel leaks to be performant.

It's also worth remembering that Bernstein has this reputation you're alluding to among Unix nerds. In cryptography, he has no such stigma; he's a world-class cryptographer and I can't find any indication of interpersonal DJB drama in that field at all. I'm almost inclined to attribute the problem to the Unix nerds.