[InfiniteRand]

I think this is the post you were talking about where the Rust Moderation team resigned

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29306845

There was a lot of speculation about Amazon's role in what happened, I'm not sure if any of it was true but worth noting.

My take is that someone on the Core team violated the Code of Conduct and refused to listen to the Moderation team, and the moderation team felt undermined and resigned in protest. But they were purposefully vague (probably so as not to burn any bridges).

It seems very likely that some of these changes in the Core team are related to that