I don't see it as anyone saying "keep your mouth shut", just that if anyone is going to make conjectures as to what happened, to try and be fair about it.

As a guy who has been a new member at a few different fields over recent years, there's always that "overcoming the objections" part of the experienced members coming to understand whether or not you can be trusted to not fly a plane into a crowd when you show up the first few times. Not such a bad thing considering the possible outcome of trusting people too much with such responsibility. Heaven forbid you crash a scale or big plane because of reasons beyond pilot or building errors in such cases, as then even in spite of the fact that you may be an incredibly experienced builder and complete expert flyer, you're going to deal with people calling you a hack....."Hey, remember that guy who showed up and crashed his plane like a rookie?" "He should fly a trainer first." etc. etc. These things may be unfair, or entirely fair assessments based on the respective scenarios, We should just forego coming to judgement so quickly. Guys should be welcome to build what they want and abide by whatever rules are in place governing these things and maybe should have the ability to do it without having their preferences for building whatever they like, or can afford to build or carry, suggested as being perhaps ridiculous or have the point of their efforts be maligned at all. To each his own, but with bigger craft comes bigger responsibility to me...perhaps not as much from a risk to people scenario (though it's always a concern), but as a responsibility to not pile up all my hard-earned dollars and effort. To me there's a practical limit for size in what I can carry. If it weren't there, I would build whatever I could---Heck I max out what I can carry now, so who could I be to knock anyone's preferences....if I build smaller stuff, it's only so I can fit more of them into the car on the way to the field....multiple high dollar small models or fewer high dollar big ones is an even trade to me.