At the time of the team got the project, these developers would have been around 25 years old. Many had said that choosing such a team for a project with the goals Epochtalk was unacceptable.
This is the first comment I see about the age of the developers (but much of this happened before I joined Bitcointalk). I don't think 25 years of age is bad for programmers: they probably had years of experience and are good coders. However, it sounds like they lacked oversight by an experienced senior (software engineer). Being a good programmer isn't enough, and seeing the bigger picture takes much more experience.
Would have, could have, should have I guess.
In Dutch, we have at least 2 sayings about this, but they don't translate well. It comes down to this: in retrospect, everything is easy. If theymos would have known back then what he knows now, I'm pretty sure he would have taken a different decision. But that's just that: in hindsight.
Running a forum of this size is not an easy feet. I'm not persecuting theymos in any way - however I am persecuting the fact that there is an elite class of decision makers, when this forum should have prioritized decision making by voting, and doing its best to be as decentralized/community governed as possible - as is the bitcoin way.
You seem to think Bitcointalk is a democracy. Allow me to take this quote out of context:
theymos as our benevolent dictator.
~, and its community wouldn't be as corrupt as it is today.
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~, which additionally put Bitcoin in the pockets of the those ranked at the top of the forum.
If you make such accusations, I'd like to see some evidence.