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Isn't it about the authors have been overpromising and underdelivering since the beginning? https://mawfig.github.io/2022/06/18/v-lang-in-2022.html is a year older than this article, still interesting and it links to some other articles right at the beginning.

If the author wanted e-fame (the good kind or the bad kind), they absolutely got it.

Overpromise and underdeliver.

And lots of funding for then vaporware

Isn't that our entire industry though?

Speak for yourself, some of us have principles.

V claims to be the next best thing that ever happened since sliced bread, but instead its development over years is just yak shaving on steroids. These review posts just prove that.