Quoting top comment: “The presumption that everything is or ought to be a community endeavor is severely broken.”
I believe in the BDFL model but can see history repeating itself. Being open source doesn't mean everyone is equal, and it shouldn't
The problem with Elm is their messaging about their production readiness, luring people to try things out for critical production systems and then pull the rug out from under in the name of 'this should be the right way to do things; you are doing it wrongly', when people are already neck deep with their solutions in their production systems.
As an aside, there is no way we can compare Clojure to Elm, as the former is unimaginably brilliant in giving access to the host/target platform (JVM) so that people can get all the benefits of the battle tested libraries of Java/JVM. This Elm saga is completely the opposite. Elm core team is trying so hard to prevent people from using more tested and stable solutions from the JS world without offering them an alternative.