Also not an official statement, but my personal viewpoint is:
Tom joining Anduril actually weakens Anduril’s position within the Steering Committee as he must now recuse himself from all votes involving Anduril. As Winter mentioned, all Steering Committee members have consistently recused themselves from matters where there was a conflict of interest and I wouldn’t expect that to change.
The current system already has a check in place if the Steering Committee believes that a member is abusing their position in any way: the Steering Committee can remove any member by a supermajority vote. I can say pretty confidently that not a single one of us would vote in favor of removing Tom. While I may disagree with some of his views, I do not believe him joining Anduril delegitimizes his position.