It's cowardly and easy for me to say now after the fact, but I saw the original Mastodon post because I follow Hector Martin. I didn't think that it was going to make the situation any better but I didn't have the energy to even fire off a one-off comment saying so.

I absolutely get emotional about my work. I have absolutely sabotaged myself by not having the presence of mind to step back and take a deep breath. I had a moment of clarity reading Hector's post on Mastodon, and I'm sad that my suspicion that this was going to just make things worse was correct