We are indeed currently in the process of large changes to EF leadership structure, which has been ongoing for close to a year. Some of this has already been executed on and made public, and some is still in progress.
What we're trying to achieve is primarily the following goals:
- Improve level of technical expertise within EF leadership
- Improve two-way communications and ties between EF leadership and the ecosystem actors, old and new, that it is our role to support: users (individual and institutional), app devs, wallets, L2s
- Bring in fresh talent, improve execution ability and speed
- Become more actively supportive of app builders, and make sure important values and inalienable rights (esp privacy, open source, censorship resistance) are a reality for users including at the app layer
- Continue to increase our use of decentralized and privacy tech and the Ethereum chain, including for payments and treasury management
Explicit non-goals are:
- Execute some kind of ideological / vibez pivot from feminized wef soyboy mentality to bronze age mindset
- Start aggressively lobbying regulators and powerful political figures (esp in USA, but really anywhere, especially large powerful countries), and risking compromising Ethereum's position as a global neutral platform
- Become an arena for vested interests
- Become a highly centralized org, or even more of a "main character" within Ethereum
These things aren't what EF does and this isn't going to change. People seeking a different vision are welcome to start their own orgs.