Sad but predictable unfortunately, Linus should have left his role as head maintainer a long time ago, there are plenty of talented and experienced maintainers that could have taken up the torch, and the Linux foundation could have made sure it was ran democratically.

Linuses obsessive control over the kernel has been worrying for about a decade at this point.

Hopefully someone takes his advice as does a fork, just have to figure out what to call it.