The actual incident was a horde of morons piling on top of that repo in the days that followed.
Rails backend is in a good shape, but I don't like being dependent on a dictator's decisions on the frontend. I don't understand why Rails team don't understand that.
But from the other side I'm thankful to DHH, because now I use more Elixir, and Crystal. Those are awesome tools, and 37signals-free world feels so much better. It's not toxic.
As a Rails developer myself, it was much harder to contribute to Turbo. I had to learn Typescript before doing so, which makes the bridge too high.
90+% of the people who were complaining didn't even know Turbo existed.
Could it be communicated a bit better? Yeah sure, I give you that. Is it bad moving forward? Maybe initially as there were broken PRs but I think eventually it is in a much better place. In my opinion.