First of all, my sympathies to those devs. There's more important things in Life than
computers and its always horrible if those things go wrong.. If you're reading this, just take
your time. We do miss the updates but we'll get along.
As for Gentoo, there was and is no meltdown. There was (and might still be) a PR meltdown. But
PR is a load of (insert long series of cursewords here) anyways. Under the scratched skin the
beast Gentoo is alive and well, with new kernels, new toolchains, new packages, new Portage
versions etc. I would've never even noticed this so-called meltdown if I hadn't been reading
the Gentoo Newsletter.
There have been disturbances, but name any democratic open source project of Gentoo's size
that doesn't "suffer" from the occasional flamewar... So what if we lost our registration with
some illegitimate government - who cares? It's not like we got confiscated by the government
like a certain major UK bank.
So in short: Yes, you are exaggerating :)