I find it important to support projects that contribute to the greater free software ecosystem. I pick projects I benefit from and whose continued existence I am invested in, despite any faults.
The comments you highlighted were some of the most bizarre things argued in the whole thread. Apparently copyleft just isn't permissive enough for some people. Your counters are good!
I use GNU Stow for mine so the dotfiles I care about are included in my file-level backups. Once I restore my files, I can just run the
stow(8)command to create the symbolic links. But, if I just want the dotfiles without the rest of my files, I would usescp(1)to copy the stow directory over to a new system, because it would be simplest. I don't use version control with my stow directory (yet).