I don’t follow what you’re pointing to with “beholden to the will of every single participant in this community.”
My point is that CEA was established as a centralizing organization to coordinate the actions and branding of the then-nascent EA community.
Whereas Luke’s phrasing suggests that CEA drove the creation of the EA community, i.e. CEA was created and then the community sprung up around it.
I don’t follow what you’re pointing to with “beholden to the will of every single participant in this community.”
My point is that CEA was established as a centralizing organization to coordinate the actions and branding of the then-nascent EA community.
Whereas Luke’s phrasing suggests that CEA drove the creation of the EA community, i.e. CEA was created and then the community sprung up around it.