Perhaps they're more interested in generating ad revenue from whipped-up scandals...
or maybe they have a point. distrowatch hpd ranking show's us down from a few years ago we were 7 in '04 9 '05 10 '06 11-12 '07 right now were 12 going up probably from all the sites saying negative things. funny sabayon a gentoo fork and overlay is in 8. I know these statistics aren't 100% accurate (given how they're generated) but maybe they mean something.