I think to be fair, DetSys behavior has been dishonest to the point that they shouldn’t be given the assumption of good faith.
But that’s not the case for Ron. Seems to me that there has been a communication issue, and that the post on eelcos departure isn’t clear enough at outlining the practicalities of his removal (even if it does mention the issue tracker and such). Likewise, it’s obviously not sufficient to state these things in a Matrix room, which is essentially a backchannel that most users wont see, which may lead to them having the false impression that Eelco is in no way attached to the board, when that is clearly not the case.
Contributors have, in the past, used this kind of concealment to avoid legitimate criticisms in ways that seem malicious and unjust. But so far, I don’t think that’s the case here.
I hope we all give Ron the reasonable assumption of good faith (until reasonably shown we shouldn’t). Being the single person left on the board keeping things running must be a lot of work.