The profile of Tor demands that the developers stay anonymous, so that they cannot be targeted in any way. They already need to have policies/processes to vet

The profile of Tor demands that the developers stay anonymous, so that they cannot be targeted in any way. They already need to have policies/processes to vet code coming over the internet, so there's no need to know contributors in person. It's better to not know anyone in person, in order to not compromise the goals in any way or challenge someone's safety. Also, if Tor devs would never have interacted in person, then the alleged sexual offenses wouldn't have happened during Tor meets but some other event the accused was present at, keeping Tor free of such non-technical events. Just like reverse engineers, emulator devs, un-free codec devs are smart to operate anonymously, so should Tor devs, and it would force them to adopt needed policies for vetting random contributions properly.