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I'm sure there was some resentment from other agencies that USDS helping them implied they didn't know what they were doing or something, but on HN it has basically been non-stop positive from what I've seen. Echos of the same things in this thread: that they wish they were in a position to sacrifice their pay in order to contribute meaningfully to the government where they have the most chance at impact.
IIUC Login.gov and the much more unified design system based on Material Design for government websites came from USDS.
HN search is available to all of us. I've been a HN reader for 10+ years. USDS has been proclaimed as a bureaucratic machine that cannot do much.
Edit: ok, I actually apologize and take my words back. I must've confused USDS with something else.
> According to comments from previous years, nobody liked USDS. Everybody was bullshitting on it.
Who is everybody? HN commenters? Do you have evidence of this sentiment?
Emotional anecdotal comments should not be taken as public sentiment on an issue. They are often one sided and inaccurate.
What is disliked in your example is bureaucracy and domain guarding which can be found inside and outside of the government. That does not mean USDS is a bad or disliked program because it has inefficiencies. It also does not mean we need to audit and dismantle services and programs as a way to root out inefficiency.