I feel like I see nothing but endless moaning about the development of DCSS in places like the subreddit, but I really appreciate that the devs try different things, sometimes radically so. After all, the old versions of the game are all still available to play if you don't like a given change, and the server operators (many of whom are code contributors) go out of their way to make sure that you can play even ancient versions online (it looks like CAO hosts every release since 2012), so nobody is forced to update if they don't want to. And as expected there's a healthy variety of DCSS forks, which IMO is OSS working as intended.