Lowe is known and (probably rightly, on average) lauded for his frankness in light of his expertise. He's sort of the chemistry equivalent of a Raymond Chen or John Carmack. I like him a lot overall, but I think he badly failed to "read the room" in this particular case.

This. And it’s partially not even true. They clearly did create a lot of resources, that they present on their website and GitHub. Is everybody printing their own meds at home yet? No, and I get that the people might be offputting if they react quite confident but they can still do very good and very valuable work.