> its kinda fishy if the stakeholders get to appoint the first 11 judges

So it's a Facebook-controlled board.

An honest mechanism would involve outside groups from the start. A legitimate mechanism probably requires the government to step in.

This is simply a deflection mechanism, a board for PR.

> if you use numerals (11) in a piece of writing, dont switch to the written number (eleven)

This is common style advice. The numeral represents a quantity. Written out, it represents the body per se.