Imo it was still an overloud minority with problems. Online complaining was totally single-issue, with few of these agents able to also sing the virtues, which were many & immense. Pavucontrol was and is unparralelled in the world. Last, the bitterness never quelled. There's still a vocal minority of Pylse haters. But they now know they'll get shut down & taken to the cleaner. It's also well known that Pulse wasnt even to blame for a vast vast number of the issues- device driver bugs had to be filed & the kernel had to actually start working as advertised. Yes it's a hard experience having tbings not work. But to enforce strict conservatism, to be so resistant & dissentful of progress: it's treasonous what these people do, it's treasonous to so lopsidedly spread only the bad, so loudly & peristently. Even when it was a problem. That it has taken well over a decade of enduring the griefing, that's ignoble & unconscionable.

I think there definitely is some tugging towards perfection that has to happen, sure. Some of it is users lives getting better. But I also think there's a huge resistance to change rooted in the human heart, & some people will drag us all down for a vrry long time over anything that doesnt meet their bias, anything remotely uncomfortable, they'll refuse to see good, or they just have negative biases anyways, have already drank enough of the haterade, become witting or unwitting parts of the shouting class mob.