> The short of his rant…

This does not read as a rant at all to me. Rather it seeks to highlight a problem using an example from his own work and proposes a possible solution (with a previous caveat of “I don’t know how to fix this”).

> "Code Of Standards for maintainers" in addition to a CoC

He wants maintainers to behave in some pre-determined understandable fashion. He wants some accountability, and that seems reasonable to me. This is not a “maintainers must do what I want”, this is “let’s set basic expectations” and ensure people follow them. Whatever those should be.

> in order to witch hunt people he feels "gets in the way."

B does not follow A. You are simply straw-manning here, so I have nothing to say to it other than it’s a fallacious point.