Summary: Swept under the rug are a bunch of perfectly legitimateEPO problems, which EPO staff (through the union and staff representatives) keeps bringing up, only to meet the deaf ears and iron fists of Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos since one decade ago
In any democratic, functioning institution they would not even ask if he can continue another term; he would be summarily sacked and investigated over the corruption, the cocaine, the racism and so on
The crowd/audience Linus Torvalds panders to is paid by GAFAM to go attend and dominate (speak at) LF events. They're people whose employer forces them to use slop, it's inorganic.