OP did not &quot;go to &lt;established project&gt; and attemt to educate them&quot;. He wrote spaCy after looking at NLTK and noticed a difference in philosophy that could not be overcome by talking it over.<p>The NLTK project has grown a community that values choice and, well, history I guess? The author knows that and does not want to be part of it and that is totally fine. He seems to understand the project goals, he just doesn&#x27;t agree with them, so started from scratch and wrote a post about it, presenting a different way to do things.<p>All of this is to say, I agree with some points you made but IMO this post is not part of the genre you mentioned.