They did not concede that there’s nothing special about CoMaps in comparison to Organic Maps. Organic Maps is not community-driven like many open source projects are. If you read the original post, you’ll see there was an open letter with 276 signatures asking for some pretty basic changes you’d expect from an open source project and the issues were not addressed. So the community created CoMaps to fix the issues themselves.
CoMaps is ran like a transparent community-driven open source project whereas Organic Maps is a secretive dictatorship. No one has been able to give an example of how CoMaps could be any more community-driven than it already is because there isn’t anything left to do that isn’t already in the works. Anyone scoffing at it hasn’t been able to explain what should be different or why it isn’t meaningfully better than Organic Maps.
I partly agree, that’s why I’m trying to bring it back to more relevant and objective things like adherence to the Privacy Guides criteria, which was one of my main reasons for suggesting CoMaps in the first place.