https://retrohandhelds.gg/gpds-bazzite-fiasco-bad-timing-worse-communication/

Antheas was removed from the bazzite project:

The Bazzite team later confirmed GPD wasn’t at fault and that Antheas had been removed by “an overwhelming majority vote” for ongoing conduct issues. Antheas wrote their own version of events, available for your reading pleasure here, if you really enjoy open-source melodrama.

So maybe take his writeup with a grain of salt.
Not saying that it's false, or that it's not a complex issue, but none of us were in the room so who's to say one way or the other.