I've been using Elm a few months for a serious project and really like it. That said, I do get the impression there is some drama at the top (among the overlords) and the direction they want (or others want them) to take things.

I'm not even close to being an overlord or contributing anything to the language (just a consumer who has been very happy with how everything's been working so far) so the fact someone like me is even aware this is going on is mildly troubling. Other libraries I'm fairly familiar with (Pandas in Python, React etc) seem to tend towards quietly releasing without all the public drama among contributors.

Not sure whether it's because it's a smaller community or more of the help/documentation is on places like reddit or discourse (where the overlords argue - vs something like stack overflow), or whether everyone involved just needs thicker skin.

Either way, it's only a mild annoyance to me for now and I really like Elm overall. Would encourage anyone interested to check it out.