The outcome is several pieces of software that millions of people adopted as optimum solution for a long list of different needs, and that are stable and work really well.
How this could be tagged as not good enough work for somebody is beyond my comprehension.
The real question is whether RMS is actually doing good work. I don't question his intent, but the outcome is… let's call it "debatable." And, arguably, the gaussian on that outcome very much includes negative results — not sure where the overall curve goes…