>The American Revolution against British colonial rule was a 'populist mass movement' that the vast majority of American citizens would agree was a good thing.
A lot of citations needed. The American revolution was a revolt of the upper class of the colonies against the upper class of England. The average colonist didn't particularly care one way or the other as can be seen by post war migration over the boarder into Canada and vice versa.
The issue here is that the current generation of programmers seem to want political power more than doing actual work. Everyone and their grandmother saw the huge decline in quality between r5rs and r7rs. The people who wanted to do stuff created racket. The people who want to rule a graveyard stuck with the rnrs process.
Seeing this happen to scheme whose whole purpose is the ability to create languages is bizarre. I can understand a fight like this over gcc or Linux,a fork there isn't something a single person can do as a weekend job. Scheme on the other had is absolutely something a single dev can design and implement in a few months worth of weekends.
It seems somewhat incredible that mega fauna survived the previous two dozen or so ice ages just fine then went extinct as soon as humans figured out how to live in huts.