I can understand your feelings, but RTD said it with a lot of love and hurt. He's a huge fan himself. The Whoniverse is really very different from most other fandoms. The only one I can think of that is similar is Star Trek. With both of them there is a large section of the fan base that literally grew up on the shows.

RTD has an ego problem, absolutely, but it comes from a different place than Whedon's. He's one of us, and feels that those more eccentric fans bring down the whole. Including himself. Joss just has a God complex. Maybe RTD is developing one too, especially with the spin-offs, but that's not where that comment came from.

I don't agree with the tone of it, or the language, but it came from a feeling of personal insult by certain other fans, and not just a desire to put his minions in their place. That I understand.