Two things:

First, don't assume the opinions of a (sometimes vocal) minority necessarily represent the majority.

Second, at least a part of the "desire for The Product . . . not to be a roaring success" is based in people not wanting the platform that suits their needs now to stop doing so in the future. Nokia's moves toward mass market have been slowly eroding away all of the features that make the devices appeal to the people who currently own them. Dual SDHC slots, a useful number of buttons, real d-pads, larger screen size, more usable hardware keyboard layouts, etc. These are all things that we've lost as Nokia has tried to take this platform the mass market.

It's tough to watch a product that started out nearly perfectly suiting your needs slowly become yet-another-generic-plastic-slab, but this "opposition to success" doesn't have anything to do with the punk rock before-they-got-popular attitude—it's about the unfortunate compromises that have been made to try to make a product succeed with the average consumer.