Homebrew has really wonderful maintainers. I'm mystified why anyone would get into conflict with them, but I can imagine the kind of entitled personalities who would do that. The article gives a hint:
"Ironically, this is often worse coming from employed developers’ large tech companies with fantastic profit margins."
This is exactly the main OSS problem right now. Entitled $BigCorp employees who churn around 1000 LOC (in OSS) per year for $250,000, engage in activism and high profile issues that will be talked about on Twitter and take credit for actually valuable contributions from idealistic individuals.