TLDR I’ve been in this community for four years and witnessed the same argument happen over and over.
I think the reason is more complex than there are bad actors muckraking. It stems from the good design decisions which necessary exclude some things.
Some of us have APIs we care about that don’t have native wrappers and we wish they did, so that abstractions could be built and distributed on top of them. Some of us have the APIs we care about wrapped already and therefore don’t fully understand the frustration of those who don’t.
It’s not a gap in expectations, it’s a gap in inclusion.
We don’t really have any communications outlet to resolve this gulf, and elm-explorations, which was supposed to provide an outlet for us to experiment with these APIs but the barrier to entry there has been enormous. Without some sort of outlet, some people get very upset.
Even if I disagree with the articles arguments and his need to write it, I sympathize with the pain he felt, because I’ve felt it too, and it does seem like that pain is not fully felt by everyone in the community, which is isolating.