Nobody is immune to plane crashes, terrorist attacks, or fatal heart failure – not even Linus Torvalds, who still has the final say in the development of the kernel he named Linux. This worries many, as there is no public record of who or what would take over leadership in case of an emergency.
Agreed on the bcachefs engineer being a thorn on everyone’s side, but this also implicates torvalds since he merged bcachefs in the first place and also stalled for so long on Overstreet’s behavior (probably just due to fatigue).