The only problem is that Jerry's claiming that I've not done a great job leading the project, just the opposite in fact. Thus you can't claim my response is a strawman response by suggesting that "Don's doing a great job leading the project" is a reasonable interpretation of Jerry's comments. If Jerry's observation is accurate, then I'm not doing a great job, sorry. If he's accurate, I suck and should step down.
And if the OpenACS 4.x project team (not observers outside the team) agree with Jerry's assessment, I will.
On the other hand, if they disagree, maybe Jerry will step back, think things through, and offer to jump in and help out in ways that will make my life easier, rather than harder. I would welcome that.