The blog post is a narcissistic cringe ride, and the PR did not give credit to the level this Slarin appears to have been involved. Also, the change seems to cause a performance regression in some cases, which someone had also pointed out. It seemed to optimize for the case where only a subset of the weights are needed at the expense of the case where all of them are eventually needed. Seems the kind of thing that should have been tested prior to checking in.

Overall, these people would be better off taking their drama on Twitter or LinkedIn. ggerganov did the right thing kicking them out.