Node has 4-6 weeks without a meaningful release (other than security stuff) pretty much every December. I think the criticism in the article is unfounded and whomever needed/wanted a release should have asked first instead of writing an "angry" blog post.
(I'm a Node.js maintainer)
I'm consistently skeptical about new tech whether it is NoSQL or Blockchain or Serverless. Some of the things I'm skeptical about fail and some succeed.
The fact it's taking a while to release is still insanely fast. I'm sure they may be some bumps.
Being skeptical is good and some stuff succeeds and some doesn't - but building tools is still fun and cool, whether it's useful or widely adopted or not :)
Did it really cost $1 million instead of the 150k that’s been floating around?
If you don’t like the price now just give it some time.
The point is that these kind of heroics can actually work now and they’re only going to get cheaper.
I don’t mean to sound negative about what you wrote, it was an interesting read.