"You'll never find [More than X GitHub workers condemn removal of meritocracy rug], despite that also being the case" How would you know it's the case unless,

"You'll never find [More than X GitHub workers condemn removal of meritocracy rug], despite that also being the case" How would you know it's the case unless, say, 1200 GitHub workers sign a letter of protest as they did in the case of Google? Sure, we could imagine that 1200 GitHub employees objected, but that's not the same thing, is it?