Nice write-up on the FTB launcher Vvoid but I think you are doing Technic/Tekkit a huge disservice by not mentioning the only reason FTB exists was because the technic guys ignored all the childish mod authors and made a pack which did all that 6-9 months ago.
I purposely left out any mention of the Technic/Tekkit pack because of all the drama you guys have already mentioned, and because it is similar to announcing which political party you support; everyone will immediately take sides. Furthermore, from my use of the Technic launcher, it was nowhere near as user friendly as the FTB launcher is. I might not have messed around with it and missed it, but the addition and subtraction of mods to FTB is child's play, whereas Technic seemed like it was all or nothing to me. Again, I didn't use Technic much once I found out FTB would be released (mainly because Technic was woefully outdated by the time I heard about it), so I could be underselling it.
Given that though, Technic NEVER had the level of mod developer support that FTB does. Slowpoke could be a shady fuck for all I know, but for the most part they all play nice together and watching Direwolf20's streams is enough to convince me that FTB is worth it. Granted, some people are complete douches, like RichardG (genius at modding, but acts like he's 12), but when I can listen to people like Azanor (Thaumcraft), Soaryn (XYCraft), KingLemming (Thermal Expansion) and (not listen to since she never speaks) Eloraam (Redpower), that sold me.
As a side note though, SirSengir actually destroying people's worlds over the inclusion of Forestry in Technic was, indeed, the height of douchery. I agree with you on the level of dick-headedness in the mod community, but thankfully most of them are pretty cool overall it seems.
Also, one of the actual Mojang employees (I forget his in-game name, DW calls him Tahg all the time though) plays on the Forgecraft server, so I'm not too concerned that Forge will become obsolete anytime soon. Hell, Forge pretty much cut the amount of work that the actual Mojang people have to do anyway. They can just skip it and say "Use Forge" unless Notch insists.