> The idea is that it's irresponsible to diffuse the limited amount of effort by launching your own desktop environment project rather than contributing your talents to one of KDE or GNOME.

That's just a different way for some people to complain that someone, somewhere, is having fun that they don't approve of.

> I don't ever see myself using this DE, but the fact that it seems to be one guy's labor of love kind of makes me happy.

Yup. I heartily support these kinds of things. I remember how much flack Terry Davis used to get on the internet, but those flamers have long since been forgotten by history while both he and TempleOS have their own Wikipedia entry.

I still have "Use TempleOS daily for a month" on my bucket list :-/