Without trying to get into David's mind, I'd like to point out that David's blog post was more of a reaction to defend the Rails community. I must say it's possible to get the point across even without the unfortunate comparison with the ASF. The point is this: it's hard writing exceptional software. I think you both agree on one count: even guidance and support don't guarantee a groundbreaking software project. If success was easy to reproduce, someone would have discovered a way of generating groundbreaking software projects on a mass scale.
Now I don't think that a software project has to be groundbreaking to be useful. I have no illusions that ESME is destined to be as groundbreaking as e.g. Rails. I still hope it has the chance to be useful. With that said, I hope that any heated arguments originating from the Rails scandal are over soon, because there are probably no two people who agree on which software is useful or groundbreaking. And the time and effort spent in a discussion like this could be spent creating software. Vassil
