To the contrary, a bunch of FAANG driven contributions tend to make projects focused too much on particular use cases. Go’s clusterfuck of package management is entirely because Google doesn’t do package management.
This is one of the challenges we have, as a project, in this next phase of its life: make sure that we are helping organizations achieve their goals, while not allowing it to be totally directed by them. Rust governance is set up to be resilient to takeovers by any one organization, but we're now playing with some of the most powerful organizations on the planet. We're glad to have them, but we do have to make sure that we make Rust what we want it to be, and not purely what various large tech companies want it to be. It's a delicate balance.
At the end of the day, I think it comes down to the actions of people directly involved in a community, and the culture that they collectively cultivate. I'm optimistic that being intentional in this makes for a very resilient project and community.
This is where I think mindful investments in building and maintaining a diverse community of developers and users is especially important for a system component like a programming language. From my perspective, this is an important feature of Rust that we should seek to maintain (as I've mentioned before elsewhere [1]).
Very happy to see this happening, for all the reasons you cite.
