Indeed that is part of the concern. Lennart was an influential person while at Red Hat. When you see the same few people coalescing around 'standards' forming and everything they peddle happens to involve them or be written by them...
The guy works at Microsoft now. That ought to tell you where his values were for free software this whole time.
To the people not getting that reference: Check out who is the third-listed author's name https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/