* Keras
* Ruby
* Clojure
* Zig
* OCaml
* Vim
* Elixir
I think all of these have ended up being unusually coherent. I may not agree with their design philosophy, but there clearly is one.
A very widespread system for organising people is to have a single responsible decision-maker, supported, monitored and advised by a committee. We see that through politics and business, and a lot of the best open source projects seem to do the same thing.
Many of those, including Linux as far as I know, simply started as projects that were driven by single authors with a strong vision and remarkable diligence.
Then people flocked to those projects, but with the understanding and appreciation of that vision.
I don’t think any of them wanted to be BDFLs for the sake of power. They were the original authors and _made_ something useful. I don’t think any of them took over an existing project and declared themselves dictators. Ironically they all would be way too opinionated to do so.