Yeah, no, I'm not saying Zach wasn't unhappy with the whole core team vs Emerick drama, none of us were. I kinda get it, but also, I don't get it like at all. There are so many tiny details I don't know anything about, but I also feel it was somewhat personal, not really socio-technological (so to speak). Otherwise, we would've maybe seen a big split and a Clojure fork. I see the similar tension (for years) now in Emacs and Org-mode camps. Contributing to core Emacs has similar pain points - specific workflows (no PRs - patches discussed in the mailing list, tone of dismissal toward community-submitted fixes, etc.), but I don't see any big contributors going like: "fuck it, I'm tired of this BS, I'm gonna go contribute to Neovim instead..."

It is really sad that Chas decided to leave slamming the door, makes it almost impossible to imagine him returning and contributing to let's say to Jank, which afaik has none of the hurdles he complained about.