FWIW these are not "Amazon employees that infiltrated the Rust ranks to take over". Mozilla fired everybody, and companies heavily invested in Rust like Amazon

FWIW these are not "Amazon employees that infiltrated the Rust ranks to take over". Mozilla fired everybody, and companies heavily invested in Rust like Amazon, Facebook, etc. hired them. So over night some people have labeled the opinions and work of these people as "Amazon opinions". Amazon has a lot of people working on improving Rust itself, and this gives them power, because they decide on what stuff the people they are paying work on, so that stuff gets done sooner, and often better, than the stuff done by volunteers on their free time. There are other companies invested in Rust, so if they see this as a problem, they can hire more people to work on Rust too. Steve criticizes this, but their criticism is not constructive, since they propose no solution. As long as people that work on Rust get paid by companies, those companies control what they work on, and that's going to be something that these companies care about.