Looks like it might not be as serious, or rather - there have been latter developments that are trying to address it, and tbh my first comment wasn't really a well thought joke.

There has been some drama about both him getting banned from Freedesktop, and also general problems with harrassment/transphobia in his community, and especially his behavior when Code of Conduct to prevent/improve it was in the works.

https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html

I have not really dug down into the situation, it was mostly relayed to me by a friend who was using Hypraland, but from what I tried looking up, it seems to boil down to a few blog posts and videos about it.

But, I've also found a blog post that was trying to sort it out, so it might not be as bad as it may sound. Don't know how the situation turned out in the latter years, but at least there was an attempt. https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandCommunityChanges