And yet after that incident, and whatever serious brain drain, HR, PMs, tech leads, 1:1 reporting (all symptoms and pains of a growing company); GitHub still remained meritorious enough to merit being bought by one of the biggest companies in the world for billions of dollars, so you have a huge problem with your assessment the company culture changed to one of anti-merit after this incident.

What actually changed was they got rid of a rug, a tweet was posted, and some feminists (do you even know if they work there anymore?) were part of the charge and that pissed you off enough you're still talking about it a decade later.

And despite this strong conviction you have, you've provided 0 references (you didn't even cite the original incident, I had to figure out what you were talking about) or evidence in several back and forth messages to support up your position, which you're on the hook to prove since you made the claim. To me it sounds like you're talking out of your rear.

Feel free to have the last word on this one, but I won't be responding again since I've made my point thoroughly and there hasn't been anything added to the discussion since 3 posts ago, cheers.