Hi to be clear, there is a TOC of 6 members which there are elections yearly for the community spots, and it is the formal body that leads the project. The project has also more than doubled the number of community maintainers that can merge PRs, and over the past two years active PRs (merged, review, etc..) has gone from 100/mo to ~400/mo. But reviews from maintainers hold equal weight, and if they didn't then I would've been able to merge one of my PRs that took over 2 years to get in much faster.