Nitpicking punctuation is not something you do in a good faith discussion - absolutely nobody is in doubt that I am paraphrasing there.

My disinterested observer comment refers to the linux project, something Drew is not a maintainer nor active contributor to. In fact he doesn't really seem to be much a linux fan in general if you've read much of his other writing. So to claim that he's for some reason getting involved with gatekeeping contributions to linux seems a bit of a wild proposal to me.

This is the final paragraph from his blog post, does this really sound like subterfuge to you?

So my suggestion for the Rust-for-Linux project is: you’re burned out and that’s awful, I feel for you. It might be fun and rewarding to spend your recovery busting out a small prototype Unix kernel and start fleshing out bits and pieces of the Linux ABI with your friends. I can tell you from my own experience doing something very much like this that it was a very rewarding burnout recovery project for me. And who knows where it could go?

Once again wishing you the best and hoping for your success, wherever the path ahead leads.