I don't want to express (ha, get it) too strong of an opinion here, but I personally feel that the way the old express core team handled the Strongloop buyout was unnecessarily negative. It seems Strongloop is doing very much to make express even better, so I am all for it.
It reminds me of when Stripe assumed control (with the author's permission, of course) of the stripe-node library. Within a week, every single issue had been closed, and the documentation consolidated into stripe.com.
