What struck me as odd about JT's resignation was that they were nominally in the group that was in charge of everything. They were even primarily responsible for drafting the new organizational structure. Why, then, did they feel the need to resign when they had so much influence?
Having read Tyranny I think I understand. JT resigned because the recent episode revealed just how little influence they actually had and how little the supposed structure of the project mattered. What structure was there was a smokescreen for the actual informal power structures in the project.
Fasterthanli.me called out these informal networks and promised to stop participating in them in order to try to minimize their legitimacy [1], but I don't think that is going to be enough. The problem is the anonymity of the elite that is actually governing the project—we don't know who they are, so we don't know the informal structure through which decisions are actually made. Those who do know insist on keeping quiet, which does prevent an internet mob but also preserves those informal structures from scrutiny and dismantling. We need the people in the know to come clean not so that we can unleash an internet mob but to lay bare the actual power dynamics. Until that's done it won't matter how much the formal structure changes, the informal structure will continue to dominate.
EDIT: I missed several developments[2][3] over the past few days, so it looks like there may already be progress may be being made on this front. Thanks to Georgelemental for drawing my attention to them [4].
[0] https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
[1] https://fasterthanli.me/articles/rust-the-wrong-people-are-r...
[2] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/05/29/RustConf.html