The rule of law will only ever have an "I'll be back" moment if all management is removed and the Office gets 'reset' (because once you make it the normal to violate the EPC, in the name of whatever "emergency", it's hard to restore order)
Summary: The EPO's administration continues rushing ahead with an unlawful agenda, exploiting a pandemic that's gradually coming under control regardless to shred apart the EPC
We have some reasons to suspect that one of several parties (possibly not in the UK but having connections here), having suffered major and very expensive setbacks, may look to harm the messenger one way or another
Could the FSF not find any law firm that, in addition to talking about or for Free software, does not use .NET, OOXML, and almost everything Microsoft?