It's refreshing to see that we are not alone in our thoughts on how the community is not being stewarded towards its own interests. I applaud the author on how clear he made the argument.

For those that aim to continue working on top of WASIp1, WASIX (https://wasix.org) might be a great way to get your programs with sockets and threads fully running on Wasm.

Note: I work at Wasmer (https://wasmer.io), a WebAssembly runtime.