Unfortuntely, more than a few free software advocates would rather believe RMS was crucified by a conspiracy of "satanic transgender SJWs" who just wanted to destroy the life of an awkward, neuroatypical man out of cruel spite and kill the free software movement with their fascistic gender equality initiatives and codes of conduct, than accept that his own well-documented and at times legitimately reprehensible views and behavior inevitably became his undoing.

Not entirely surprising that a movement whose mantra is "Stallman was right" might have a problem admitting Stallman did a lot of things wrong.

FSF lost RMS because of a spat where he was falsely accused by SJWs. I'm not going to get into history of all the upsides and downsides of RMS, or whether there were valid reasons for him to leave, but the point is that that the particular incident he left over was intentionally false reporting and misinformation. Everyone knew that. He was still gone.

The article is correct that FSF has had fewer people than Linux Foundation, but it has had much more impact. If FSF continues down that path, it's dead for impact.