"If you don't like the direction of a multi-decade-long, hundreds of manyears, deeply esoteric project, you have the freedom to go in, fork it, and maintain it"
is the most technically true, practically meaningless argument in FOSS
is the most technically true, practically meaningless argument in FOSS
The code base is Xorg rather than Xfree86 because of one such fork.
Gcc went through the egcs fork.
OpenOffice became LibreOffice in a fork.
When leadership of a project fails to keep the volunteers behind them such forks happen.
And? Fortunately, free speech and criticism doesn't stop when someone is tired of hearing it.
The alternative doesn't need to be some new solution. A course reversal or change on the existing ones is enough. In which case the criticism already highlights the solution. Besides, the first step of fixing a problem is identifying it.