On the topic of Torvalds, you only hear about him when he post a nastygram email because it makes for clickgrabbing headlines. But more often than not, he only

On the topic of Torvalds, you only hear about him when he post a nastygram email because it makes for clickgrabbing headlines. But more often than not, he only do so when someone senior in the development chain screws up and thus he has to come in and make the final call. And likely the bickering has gone on for days if not weeks, and that part of the kernel has thus slowed to a halt because of it. Another problem is when politeness gets weaponized. This when people come in and try their outmost to rile up existing group members such that said members violate some rule or other.