> Key takeaway for me was the note that it “definitely isn’t a community designed language”.

If you scroll to the top of the page with Chris' comment, this point is being addressed:

>In the coming weeks, we hope to introduce a new language workgroup that will focus on the core of the language evolution itself, splitting off this responsibility from the core steering of the project. The intent is to free the core team to invest more in overall project stewardship and create a larger language workgroup that can incorporate more community members in language decisions.