That is the human nature...

In the programming world, it's not unusual for flame wars to start over which programming language (and its creator) is The One. Guido van Rossum, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Larry Wall, Bjarne Stroustrup,...

Everybody wants to make the right choice regarding their investment of time and resources. Cultishly following the leader (and excusing or overlooking unflattering things) of the project they've invested in is the natural thing to do.

The trouble all those projects have is a well-known phenomenon in the software development world: the so-called Bus Factor:

Will a project fail if one of its members is hit by a bus?

I'm a cryptonewbie but the more involved folks can go through the list of projects in your post and make a guesstimate which one of them would be ruined by a bus :-)