Usability

I started writing a comment for this great post Then I thought there are enough comments in there already so I'd rather write my own post. And also because this is kind of a mission statement about the question: How would you define success for the Drupal project?
It was 2003 , six years ago, when I got started with Drupal. My user id is 4299. A few months later I contributed my first module (i18n). I can't tell how many modules there were at that moment, but Internationalization module is node number 5917. Too many things have happened since then, most of...
I've recently run into some discussion about some functionality and some options for site administrators related with a patch I've post to Drupal core. But please, this is not about we are right/they are wrong and that. I just think this subject deserves some further discussion.