Of course, if one reads it, one should be careful to make sure to separate direct observations from implications and guesses, as the latter are likely to be wrong (intransparency of some things is real), and some are indeed wrong (I don’t think being more specific will convince anyone, and I’d risk divulging information that became clear from private communication).
Yeah, Nixpkgs has been there believed that, the story ended up with some people setting up social pressure to talk the leader into a commitment to either discussing or fully delegating, and then this has been used to push through some changes the leader initially opposed but didn’t want to discuss in detail.