I don't mind if someone says they don't like Zope, provided they've used other tools and tried Zope. Yes, documentation is important. We're getting there slowly with Zope. But Zope is certainly good enough right now that a lot of developers are both using it and learning to use it. And that has been true for a while.
Books are a chicken and egg problem.
Publishers don't want to commission books if there aren't sufficient developers to buy the books. Developers don't want to use a product if there aren't any books. But there are those thankfully who have vision and will try something on their own without waiting to be coddled. I wanted to try Squishdot, and I cursed like a trooper trying to learn how to install Zope and Squishdot, then later trying to get Zope running with Apache. The goal of these summaries has been to make the discussions on python-dev more visible to the community, letting people offer timely comments while a thread is still reasonably current and fresh in memory.