I don't know what "hole" you're talking about. The hole of correctly describing how the Lisp community destroyed itself by permitting Naggum to dominate its public communications, and to some extent has recovered since then?

Perhaps you're implicitly criticizing me for violating some taboo so dreadful you don't dare even to name it; for example, a taboo on speaking ill of the dead. Unfortunately, any truthful accounting of almost any tragic historical events requires willingness to speak ill of the dead, so I'm more than willing to "dig" myself into that "hole". I'd like to invite you to join me here; cowering in fear like that is unworthy of you.