It is an invitation, not a dismissal. The committee is running a call for nominations as we speak (until February 11th), see the announcement. EDIT: I got confused about the date, that was in 2022.
The community is not uniform. Some people are fine with breaking changes, some are not. The public outcry comes from the latter group, and I am trying to offer a solution. My apologies that the solution isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. I, for one, am perfectly fine with breaking changes such as simplified subsumption, but people who aren’t need to speak up during the decision-making process, not after.