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> Maybe Hoare left years before the Rust community could turn on him and accuse Mozilla of holding back progress in the language

Yes, this is the case. (As far as I can tell.)

>>sanxiy+(OP)
You're downvoted, but I think that's a bit unfair.

Graydon did leave pretty early, so there wasn't this kind of pressure yet, really. However, after he left, we moved to a "core team" model, which meant that a few people (I among them) were the decision makers for everything. This eventually lead to complaints and pressure, and we opened it up further from there, adding all the other teams.