I commented, committed, worked with contributors and Hashicorp employees early on in Terraform. It was so refreshing to see a project that did what I wanted, but better than the tooling I'd already written -- and that it was so actively working with the community.

Phinze was a large part of feeling like my contributions were welcomed, even just as a community member. A few months back I encountered something of Paul's, noticed his GitHub work had tapered off and found the blog posts entitled "diagnosis" and "treatment" on his blog.

I know nothing more about current events pertaining to Hashicorp or Terraform, but seeing some negativity here coupled with the experience of encountering that sad news led me to comment.

That team has made world class tooling, with the community. The people I know who work there are some of the sharpest and kindest people I've ever met. I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and I hope you yourself will as well before presuming anything that leads to more negativity.

It's obviously not ideal, but perhaps there are legitimate reasons and at least they were transparent.