It's the hot take culture. Some people see internet forums as a vessel to unleash their toxicity.

I don't see how it's 'toxic' to express dissatisfaction with mission creep in a piece of software. It's a totally normal, reasonable criticism, and from the author's point of view is far more useful than their staying silent.

i would agree that this was "mission creep" if it those were not plugins. you can still use 100% vanilla redis without any of this.