Well the issue is that they seemingly want to be a safe haven for moderate bigots and regressive types as long as they're polite about it, exactly in line with the "keep politics out of x" thing. Their definition of something "political" and deserving of scorn seems to include something as minor as using gender-neutral pronouns in documentation, while assuming that the reader is male is "apolitical" because that's how things used to be.

It seems to be a space designed to avoid anything which the typical 90s white male geek type wouldn't perceive as political. Which in itself is a highly political goal.

"Using Lenna is on-brand for SerenityOS" is not meant as a compliment.