He's been a sissy fool since forever, it's only now he's showing the colours. He's taking mad $$$ figures and that's whats tying him down to all of this. Which is funny because, remember, his family were hardcore communists, and now most of them larp as liberals. He's a tool and has his handlers, he knows this and the only way he can show his power is through ranting about code quality, but notice that he can't speak about the direction Linux is heading. I don't understand the reverence he receives. He wrote his shit at the right time, pushed it in the right place, and that’s all there is to it. Removing contributors wasn't his decision, it was decided for him. He's a fall guy first and foremost, a face corporations that contribute to Linux keep around, it's just convenient to have one place of upstream to them, that's all. It wouldn't be any different for any BSD with this much popularity and corpo's involvement, but due to different licences they can just take whatever they want and don't have to return anything at all.
As for me, I don't really give a shit, I know for a fact that he's the type of person that seethes hard whenever someone he doesn't like uses his stuff. It's probably the same with Arch jannies that were throwing hissy fits about OpenRC threads, they likely seethe as hard that Artix has any traffic at all. I feel like all this dumb political shit accelerated too fast and it's all crashing.