Reviewers are not contributors, that's a project issue. It doesn't look like there is a lack of contributions. I don't know what the processes now, but I don't remember it being worth many people's time to become part of the project because if their red tape.

I'm not suggesting Bitcoin-Core developers suck as a whole, most are probably far more intelligent than myself. I'm saying they made a pretty silly mistake that MANY if not MOST other developers make and that took way too long to make it to release (that should have been a patch release). 

I also think criticism shouldn't be stifled for the sake of "if you can do it better, just do it yourself" doesn't fix the problem that everyone else depends on X project and they have obvious problems they aren't fixing etc. 

Could I have worded my original note better, probably, do I think I shouldn't have said anything at all. No.