My point is that their problem is other peoples' expectations. Their ambition set the bar before they'd written a single line of code. Had they been more humble and waited to ask for a handout afte they had released what they have now I don't think there would be half as many articles hitting HN about how crappy their software is.

I think that they released something is great. I would never put some one down for having ambitions and aspirations to follow them. I would simply advise that they keep those ambitions to themselves and let their actions speak for them.