That's the impression given by posts linked here. The initiative to begin trying to transform it into a community-run project seems to have kicked off roughly 12 months or so ago[0] - and by all accounts seems to have been met with significant resistance from the bdfl that preceded it.
[0] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/commit/031eeb78c8e35960a9a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciaran_Gultnieks
and Ciaran, while largely silent, still "holds the master keys" (figuratively and somewhat literally).
As an F-Droid member myself, albeit a completely tangential and pointless one, the only things I know about why Hans is _de facto_ leader and cannot be overridden even by the bodies created for overseeing the entire project are a couple of factors mentioned right here: that he is the only one with Owner access on GitLab, and that he is Technical Lead, "initially", in the board:
In these kind of situations, "de facto" is usually the same as "actual" for all practical purposes.
sounds a bit extreme on the privacy front, but not entirely unusual. i see no relation to how the project is run though. on the contrary, i expect community run projects even more likely to reject logging because it only takes a few vocal people to demand that. meaning the more people have a voice, the more likely demands for privacy come up. see debian and their popularity counter for example when they could just log all the downloads instead.
I'd expect privacy-inclined people to care vastly more about detecting and tracing indicators of compromise or similar over avoiding access logging on the open internet.
Edit: Use actual English.
Is the confusion a result of disagreement, or of my explaining my perspective poorly?
of course the upside of community input is that you also have more moderate voices and technically knowledgeable ones that can explain the risks and help reduce peoples worries.