We didn't tolerate it for main production projects.
But you're missing the vibe at the time: You would get downvoted and argued with if you tried to say that it was one person's hobby language. It was supposed to be a big movement and the next big thing in FE development. People would argue that it was production ready.
You can even see a lot of those comments in this thread.
It's going to be hard to explain to future generations that the demand for computer-speakers was once such that sometimes they could even decide the language in which they spoke to the computer, and that really was a big deal back then because computers couldn't just switch back and forth like they can today.
