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I wouldn't accuse him of having technical prowess. Pretty much as soon as the takeover happened freenode started suffering technical issues. Libera on the other hand dealt with the insane influx of users really well. There was some connection troubles for the first hour if I recall correctly, but has been pretty much spotless ever since.
To be fair, when you don't own your servers, don't have any contracts with the volunteers who provide those servers, and then they exercise their ability to stop providing those servers, that's more a social problem than a technical one.
I mean that's the second thing of course, but sponsors weren't pulling out on day one yet as far as I recall, but technical issues definitely did start popping up on day one.