“The Steering Committee as an institution lacks a native instinct for the delegation envisioned by the constitution.”
The team that maintains the package set for one of the largest Linux distributions quit, citing micromanagement from above and burnout. They put out a call for new members and got one applicant. Nixpkgs has over 100,000 packages and the governance layer built to run it drove out the people doing the work. The code keeps building for now. The institution that was supposed to steer it does not exist.