> One was to allow me my Debug.crash calls.

This innocent line has a lot behind it, and probably a lot of PTSD for Elm developers.

The Elm compiler has a --debug flag that would compile with a useful debugging window. It was fundamentally broken for how long? A year?

There were many, many posts about it in that time, several community forks etc. There was little comment on this from Evan or the inner circle.

The debug flag being broken, and seemingly ignored, is a horribly beautiful example of the blog post. Imagine having effectively the only debug tool broken for your main programming language