Comment by quotemstr

More projects should push back against calls for "governance" and "steering committees" and such. As you noticed, they paralyze projects. It took JavaScript seven years to get a half-baked version of Python context managers, and Python itself has slowed down markedly.

The seemingly irresistible social pressure to committee-ize development is a paper tiger. It disappears if you stand your ground and state firmly "This is MY project".