Also, Guido stepping down had a lot to do with people starting to rag on him everywhere, which in turn related to him endorsing a language feature (https://peps.python.org/pep-0572/) that he'd previously rejected (https://peps.python.org/pep-3099/).

That said, I'd agree with GP that design by committee does suck and I'm not impressed with several of the decisions the SC has made since.