I think those are the important bits:

> The Engineering Working Group (EWG) of the OSMF has “commissioned” (I think that’s OSMF language for paid) a longstanding proponent of rules and complexity to, uh, investigate how to add rules and complexity to OSM.

> [...]

> Let us pray that the EWG is just throwing Jochen a bone to go play in the corner and stop annoying the grownups.

It's a "response" to https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2022/06/02/announcement-data-...