It felt a bit unfair that someone who hasn't contributed to a project in more than a year, declared it obsolete and urged everyone to move on (even if they were the original founder).

Also the choice of Couchbase to use "Couch" in their product name while completely breaking API compatibility between Couchbase Server and Apache CouchDB is a sly move.

All that left a bad taste in mouth. Good to see someone from Cloudant responded.