To be honest, I somewhat agree. I'm sure there's a lot to this that us outsiders don't know (or honestly, for me, couldn't be bothered to know as there are far more important rabbit holes to spend time on).

However, sometimes, a certain detachment can help when looking at what is, in the end, a "cultural disagreement" more suited to an elementary school's playground.

Whenever I see open source spats like this, and then see a Dev harangued and chased from forum to forum by what looks like a coordinated group ("groupies"?), all accusing him/her of rude behaviour, while they keep making attacks on his/her personality, character or temperament...

it leads me to think rather poorly of this "wild west posse".

Anyway, bottom line, Kent is writing open source software to benefit others (and people didn't have qualms about taking his previous bcache & using it to build out storage solutions to make millions), so perhaps he doesn't quite deserve all the abuse and ganging up, no matter whose feathers he ruffled, and how.