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Here's my take: Collaborating in the open and communicating the results of discussions and the rationales for decisions to the wider community who wasn't present for the discussions has a high time cost. It seems the core rust team has put a lot of effort into making decisions in the open, which increases freedom to collaborate.

I read it as a reference to the problem of maintainer burnout in the face of unbounded input from users and collaborators. This is something the Rust project has been dealing with and thinking about for a while.

Just a throwaway line, written, no doubt, in a fit of high-mindedness.