> It split the Elm fans into two groups: Those who were upset that they had invested in a language that now pulled the rug out from under them, and those who were true believers who told us that they trusted the Elm team’s decisions and we all needed to chill out and wait for them to address our needs, which they thought would happen soon.

This sounds like evaporative cooling.

https://lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporative-co...

It's amazing that business would tolerate paying staff to build products on one person's prototype hobby language.