Hadley Wickham and Wes McKinney take issue with the gladiatorial angle of this article: https://twitter.com/wesmckinn/status/850353331172249600
Any time someone blames their tools for their own inadequacies, show them this video of Kelly Slater surfing better on an overturned table than most of us can surf on a 7 foot three fin board: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ4owd3yQ_4. Up your game instead!
Edit: hacker news doesn't use that part of markdown
Some of our other FOSS luminaries have chosen a different interaction model. Sometimes that other approach to technical project leadership is touted as necessary. I'm sure Hadley and Wes suffer their fair share of fools, and they generally seem to do so with kindness.