I have no idea which press release you're talking about, every search I did on the subject turned up this news article or another one with very similar content, where there's no official press release: https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/10/system76_gnome_deskto...

Searching through the foundation's news posts shows only one press release about system76, which is positive in tone and isn't related to any argument: https://foundation.gnome.org/?s=system76

If you could post this press release so I could read it, that would be great. Maybe I'm just stupid and I missed something obvious. But I think you may be misremembering this.