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> He talks about creating a community where anyone is welcome to contribute.

Yes and in this case, that was exactly the problem.

> It is perfectly fine for an open source project to have the development process and the community as its raison d'être.

Conway's law is not an instruction manual.

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The problem was that too few people contributed. A contribution to an open source project doesn't have to be a pull request. Glancing over the code you're pulling down rather than assuming the maintainer is infallible counts just fine. Very, very few people do that in the JS ecosystem though.

When a package gets 2m downloads a day and it still takes 2 and a half months to find a problem, a huge number of developers have failed to do their part.

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