Yes most do not like change and there will be some growing pains but to make cheap shots at our efforts is low.

This is little condescending, to infer that people's issues are only growing pains or issues with change is somewhat insulting. There is nothing worse than to respond to a critique with "your just not used to it, give it time and you will adjust". This type of response seems to say you are in fact the problem and denies accountability from the side of the site.

The fact that an external text editor is required or the learning of a ten year old markup language to edit forum texts is really quite unreasonable to say the least.

The criticism are not personal attacks at the mods or coords, who most here would acknowledge do their very best for the community. It's likely just a little boiled over frustration, with some slightly misguided offers of help. Offering an external text editor for markup clearly indicates not to expect an inline solution any time soon which is also somewhat frustrating. Also offering a tutorial for using the website seems like saying "we know the UI is not user friendly but you should "Learn" to use it because we have no intention of changing it to suit the end user anytime soon". I have found so many small issues that I don't even bother reporting them anymore because there are so many BIG things that need to be dealt with first, if the bigs things are never fixed then there is no point worrying about the small ones.