(Aside: if the moderation team themselves treat pull request messages like a message board fit for announcements and general discussion, how good can they be at moderating? Making sure people stay on topic and post in the appropriate venue is something like a base-level expectation for even mediocre moderators.)
> This is a highly mature drama where the arguments are dry, generic and adhere to a strict code of values. No fingers were pointed, and the offended party is taking the high road by resigning.
As an outsider, I see Twitter-esque levels of grandstanding in the linked "post"—hardly mature. Based on observing the Rust community from afar over the last few years, this unfortunately is not something that is surprising.
(FWIW, I agree with all the comments pointing out that zero-context outsiders should not expect to be brought up to speed from a pull request message alone—anyone arguing the opposite is guilty of the same sort of mindset that I'm chiding here. If this announcement(!) weren't deliberately crafted to give the effect it does, supporters of the resigners might actually have a point. The fact that something that should be as boring as a pull request—no matter how controversial the subject—is being discussed in terms of "high roads" taken by any side, however, really throws that argument into the mud.)
Go hole up in a cabin in the woods and decompress by hacking on personal stuff or something and stay away from social media. For some, it has poisoned everything to the point that it has given rise to a new breed of vague status updates that pervade even project infrastructure.