The language itself is still designed primarily by the language team, which is not many people. If anything, the team is large because we see Rust as more than just the language. The language you like that’s designed by the BDFL doesn’t generally have the BDFL make all decisions about the package manager, or the website, or the documentation, or the conferences. It’s just not humanly possible.

We have the core team to provide overall oversight over all of these teams to ensure things are coherent.