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I don't know what to search for - can you elaborate?

The one that's most talked about is the top one as of this writing, Why I'm Leaving Elm. You'll find some examples in there.

Also head to the Elm subreddit or the Elm discourse forum and sort by "top all time"

Tbf, Reddit is pretty hostile in general.

That doesn’t make the top posts unfair or valueless.

That's not the sense in which Elm is hostile. It's hostile as in 1990s Microsoft. There are lots of little things, but the big ones are:

- the compiler detects whether it's compiling core libraries and disables some features if it's not

- you can't choose your own package set, even locally

From a JavaScript ecosystem perspective, these choices are hostile.

Ideally Elm core development should have kept up to make up for these restrictions, but it didn't. Yet, IMHO, it was still the right choice.

Isn't the compiler open sourced? Can't someone simply work around this?