Oy vey, what to say about this. On one hand, the "people who don't like my stuff are crazy loons with an agenda" sounds like something you might hear from a fringe politician (or a mainstream one these days). It's just a bad way of putting it and the paternal condescension it indicates is part of the reason people hated on Ubuntu projects.
On the other, I'm brought to mind of when Tollef Fog Heen left the Debian project. He complained that the community had forgotten its important creed "assume good faith". And I'm inclined to agree with him, the amount of vitriol surrounding systemd was way out of proportion to its actual impact. The amount of shit thrown at Ubuntu for simply writing software is uncanny. If you don't like it, don't use it, even express your criticism; but Ubuntu comes in for criticism for experimenting and trying to move software forward, and that's unfair. Ubuntu and Canonical are willing to take risks. I don't always like them (I don't use Ubuntu), but I can respect them for trying.
On the other, I'm brought to mind of when Tollef Fog Heen left the Debian project. He complained that the community had forgotten its important creed "assume good faith". And I'm inclined to agree with him, the amount of vitriol surrounding systemd was way out of proportion to its actual impact. The amount of shit thrown at Ubuntu for simply writing software is uncanny. If you don't like it, don't use it, even express your criticism; but Ubuntu comes in for criticism for experimenting and trying to move software forward, and that's unfair. Ubuntu and Canonical are willing to take risks. I don't always like them (I don't use Ubuntu), but I can respect them for trying.
EDIT: Here's the post from Tollef: https://hackerfall.com/story/resigning-as-a-debian-systemd-m...
I think he puts the same sentiment in a much more diplomatic way.