On the sickness of our community

Personally I have very few problems with systemd as a piece of software. It seems quite well thought out, and while there are certainly plenty of areas where it drives me nuts, the ratio of awesome:annoying is a) within the bounds of my tolerance b) about the same as plenty of other stuff that I consider good.

Where I do have a problem is with systemd as a project, particularly with some of the leaders' behavior. The "debug" flag drama was an example of the sort of behavior that I find rather stupid, but more bothersome was the fact that many people from the systemd community (cabal? ;) I'm not sure what the right word is here... camp, maybe?) seemed to see absolutely nothing wrong, and were seemingly confused why Linus would react the way he did. That worries me, as it's indicative of either a rather pervasive arrogance or a rather poor display of leadership from people who should be in a position to ensure that the project "plays nice with others". Neither one seems particularly healthy from a project that the community is supposed to base, well, basically everything on.