Perl 6?
I can't imagine how anyone can complain about this. The community revolted. The team listened. What else do we want?
Yes, that's the attitude I was talking about.
See, when you are a maintainer of a popular language with a community at some point the bickering becomes the job. And when you are a creative person managing a horde of egos who all participate to put their stamp on something the only reasonable thing to do is to leave them to their own devices, which he did. I really don't blame him. Guido is one of the nicest people and to see how the Python community did not have a single second's consideration for how their incessant infighting must have made him feel is one of the worst stories of the FOSS movement.
If you don't want bickering create a closed project, make it open but don't accept contributions, etc.
You can't have it both ways "I want a big diverse community, but they should all agree with me"