Part of growing old is handing things over to other people to carry on.
> Do you wish your family and friends to turn back on you because you are old and don’t have the same energy as you had when you were 20?
I don’t think the FSF is intended to be Stallman’s personal support network first and foremost, and I particularly don’t think that is the premise it has used in raising funds. To the extent that the FSF has become that, that's an even more serious problem.
> The question is how the landscape would look like today and if there even would be “open source” in the broader sense as we see it today, with permissive licenses, if it wasn’t for him.
If we were talking about “should Stallman be inducted into the (hypothetical) Free Software Hall of Fame?” sure, but that’s not the issue.
> Sure, you can look at a person’s mistakes only, but you could also look at all the good a person has done.
Leadership roles aren’t about the good you have done but about the good you can be expected to do in the role.