The only thing that really bothers me about what _why did is that he killed all the mailinglists without warning. I happen to know that there were a lot of teachers on the Shoes mailing list trying to use shoes to teach kids to code. It was the center piece of the new hackety hack designed for kids. It seems completely irrational that _why would abandon these innocent people without so much as a "sorry, I'm out". this makes me really worried for his mental health. It is not rational behavior.
Not to nitpick semantics, but 'rational' is not actually a very high bar. It could be completely rational within a context that we don't know. It might be irrational, it's hard to say.
