I mean in his defense, DJB has some serious chops that others have lacked, including writing what was at one point the most popular DNS server for anyone who cared about security as well as the first MTA which cared about security while transmitting email, and now two of the more popular stream ciphers, one of which underlies the current fastest secure hash function.

IM2000 probably would have succeeded if it had gotten the attention from him to go past a random idea into a well-specified protocol with a canonical implementation. Standards work is hard!