I found it very effective, because I'm curious about VCV Rack and modular synths in general, so the journey through the technical background was technically interesting. (Also the sweet-ass soundtrack provided by the in-page Winamp was exquisite.) It also gave me a solid sense that the author was not just a drive-by whiner, but a solid contributor to the ecosystem with a passel of really fascinating ideas either already executed, or on deck.

With the groundwork thus established, the eventual crumbling of the community was all the more engaging.

It affected me because I'm the target audience -- someone who cares deeply about both modular synths, and about communities being good to their contributors. If someone's merely one of those things or the other, the post will probably strike them as rambling in one way or another, and that's arguably fine because they're not the target audience.

That being said, tearing down a post because it didn't speak to you is, exactly, a shallow dismissal.