is short-circuiting so many peoples' ability to rationalize about this topic.

It appears unfair. That's the extent of my rationale. I've not seen any concrete evidence to draw any further conclusion than this. If you're managing a project and you're not cognizant of this, you probably shouldn't be managing projects; in particular, you should stay away from open source projects with a large base of volunteer contributors.

Nobody is in the right here.

So, they went through all of this, made themselves look bad, cast tons of aspersions, and in the end, they weren't even in the right? This seems a shabby defense.

are just spouting one side's propaganda.

I don't care about one side or the other. You see this giant crater left by these decisions though? Yea.. that's the problem.