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He doesn't run an open source project well when there's a substantial brain drain from the ecosystem due to his loudly-expressed worldview being deplorable.

This is like the fallacy of marketers who only measure slight short-term increases in engagement. It's not success if you get a temporary bump of 5% if you also end up pissing off a ton of people who will never come back. Eventually the whole thing craters.

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