All I can say at this point is... sigh. The governance project actually gave me some hope that after the mess with Gutenberg, we as a community would make some steps towards actually being the open bazaar of ideas we talk so much about. Strong leadership is not necessarily a bad thing. For one it allowed WordPress to move forward with more speed and determination than many other open source projects. But strong and open are not mutually exclusive things. Being more open and transparent about this would probably make us even stronger. And for someone comparing this to a coup - two active, productive and important members had an initiative and tried to be as open and inclusive as possible, going through all appropriate channels and procedures. This is just telling them - door is over there, openness and transparency do not have a place in this open source project.