It sounds lucrative and leisurely, sure, but it's not a career path I'd personally be interested in, because (caveat: I don't know the guy, I'm not involved in Vue, etc; generalizations ahead) he's very much a community manager, possibly moreso than a developer. He's got huge responsibilities and accountability, whereas I prefer to be (proverbially) holed up in a basement with my work laid out for me.

I mean I basically have online social anxiety in that I don't tend to go read my old comments and possible responses to it. I rant without standing for and defending what I say. If you run a project like Vue, you can't avoid things like that.