Nope. Quite the contrary. I was trying to avoid bringing the strange sentiment to which you are referring to the fore. Mere mention of those initials causes an adverse reaction in a lot of developers and admins. I voluntarily use his software every day. Not perfect (nothing is) but the best there is available. I find his code to be wonderfully lucid if I read it slowly and carefully. My opinion.
I also have a lot of respect for djb. That is why I thought it was strange you did not use his name when you were clearly well acquainted with who the author of netstrings and curvecp is.
TCP does suck. If you try to use it for lots of short lived connections. And that pretty much sums up how it's being used nowadays, most the time.
For single, long term connections, TCP is fine.