I think the blog post was a good one - it pointed out the problems.

Instead of defending it - go make it better. Address the items put forth right ?

1. work to get native debugging 2. clean up the looping mechanism

etc...

Instead of taking this guys post and saying 'negative criticism', see it as 'positive criticism' - he is reviewing it, showing what can be better, showing the obstacles.

I think part of developing a truly good library, is the ability to improve it, take criticism, expand and grow - not to cling to the original concept and defend all day long.

Personally I'd concentrate on the debugging, secondly, I'd work to improve the overall syntax, maybe providing alternative, more structured for some - others that don't like that can continue to use the same.

But again, rather than everyone just spamming here on how it 'rocks' or how it 'sucks' - would be better to take these observations and go and say 'how can we improve' - this is golden feedback here!