I gave up on Hurd back in the late 1980s. I'm not kidding. Before it was even called Hurd. I had heard for several years that GNU was going to make their own kernel. Eventually I gave up and stopped hoping for a release.
Imagine what kind of world we would be in today if we had had to wait for Hurd and Xanadu?
Shipping is always a feature, and sometimes perfection at the cost of depriving the world of goodness is just the vice of excessive pride dressed up in other clothes.