Correct me if I'm wrong, but Chris seems like a very respectful person and I've never heard this direct language from him publicly - it must've been a pretty bad situation.

It's too bad Swift is straying from his original vision but that's the tradeoff of designing a new language with a large company. Not blaming Apple or anything, kudos for them putting so many resources in an experimental new language, and LLVM wouldn't be where it is today without them (which I think is enabling a sea change in engineering), but at the end of the day there's only one use case for swift that matters.