You're somewhat right, somewhat wrong and somewhat as out of track as Ffmpeg: Lasse Collins should have been a team, a team that meets, so the problem of "unkno

You're somewhat right, somewhat wrong and somewhat as out of track as Ffmpeg: Lasse Collins should have been a team, a team that meets, so the problem of "unknown rude complainer" pressuring for "some guy working without scrutiny on your behalf" would be mitigated. But nothing impedes that your well-known lads can also work for the NSA or even for Microsoft. I'm adamant on thinking that first and foremost there is a smorgasbord of crazy designs at play: a build system so messy you can slide in binary injections, an init system with dependencies, an execution chain where you can easily rewrite whatever else's functions. It's fine if somewhere down the drain someone churns garbage, the priority has to be that it should be easy to detect it, I find that it's dumb and sub-par to rely on a fragmented and laggy circle of reviews, pre-releases and releases, (yeah, everything handled by thankless and lone volunteers makes it worse), for protecting our systems.