Vercel is already heavily involved, take a look at the core team: https://react.dev/community/team https://react.dev/community/team This announcement mentions

Vercel is already heavily involved, take a look at the core team: https://react.dev/community/team https://react.dev/community/team This announcement mentions they are separating business and technical governance, I suspect they are trying to limit Vercel's influence, and prevent them from taking it in a direction that only benefits them.