[snewman]

The board's motivation may have been good, they may be "in the right" here (it depends on your view on AI risk, and also on a lot of details of what was going on that we still don't know). But unambiguously they executed abysmally. There is little to be proud of here. OpenAI may have needed to be reined in, and they have probably succeeded in accomplishing that, but they have badly damaged the company in the process, and catastrophically damaged their own credibility, thus reducing their ability to influence events in the future and plausibly damaging the credibility of the entire idea of responsible development. (To be clear, I believe responsible development is important and I am sad to see it discredited.)

Edit to add: if you believe the rapid commercialization of frontier models at OpenAI was a cancer that needed to be destroyed, the likely outcome of the board's clumsy handling is that it probably now metastasizes.