GNU Founder Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT, Free Software Foundation

For computing specifically, you can add in that you basically had to be an economically privileged person who was likely on the spectrum to get really into it -- in an era where ASD and related disorders were not as well understood or diagnosed. You can also add it just being a smaller community.

Both RMS and linus had years and years of people expressing that they were acting in a problematic ways. Linus owned up to it eventually, even though there are arguments to be made for the utility of brashness.

RMS is mostly getting stuck in hyperfocused linguistic semantics, and probably doesn't really get how to not do that. Whether or not people making such a screech about this particular instance is appropriate is it's own question, but to me it is very much a "throwing up of hands" for a lot of people involved with the FSF.