8 years of Rust and I think their burnout problems stem from the monoculture of quirky personalities that make "fuck you, reader/user" decisions at every turn.

If you think that the project makes "fuck you" decisions at every turn, I invite you to peruse our issue tracker and PR queue.

The burnout problems are because people care too much about making things better, and that is a neverending queue of tasks that seems to get longer and longer.

Someone looking at the tools and documentation and thinking "these people don't care about their users", just makes it evident to me that no matter how much tears, blood and sweat we put on improving things there will be people who think you're either not doing anything or that you're actively harmful to the project. So what's the point then?

FWIW, not to me. Variety is the spice of life. It’s their blog, they should use whatever style they feel like using.

Besides, is lowercase poetry a fuck you to the reader as well?

This is not an art exhibition. Conventions have a purpose. Capitalization is not a random spelling quirk, there’s a reason why we have it. The upvote balance on my comment confirms that it’s something to consider. The “fuck you” was in reference to the author’s comment, not just to his blog post.

This is a post in a personal blog that they wrote because they wanted to write it. Someone else came across it and pointed people outside of it's desired audience that it existed.

If I make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and offer it to my friend next to me, and someone across the street yells "How rude of you! I'm allergic to peanuts", I will just close the window and continue sharing sandwiches with my friend, not spend time arguing with the yelling guy across the street.

Readers have different expectations for poetry than other forms of writing. We don't expect technical docs to be in the form of epic verse.