I really don't think 3 people is going to cover this. Like literally, NVidia will just pay 3 people to do nothing but argue with those 3 people on mailing list

I really don't think 3 people is going to cover this. Like literally, NVidia will just pay 3 people to do nothing but argue with those 3 people on mailing lists and keep them from landing patches at a reasonable rate. It would cost nothing compared to the benefit of slowing your only competitor down in a space worth this much. (and i've literally seen not-great companies do this to people's open source projects, so ...)