Cantrill jumps on every bandwagon. When he assisted in cancelling a Node developer (not a native English speaker) over pronouns he was following the Zeitgeist, now "Broadly speaking, LLM use is encouraged at Oxide."
He is a long way from Sun.
For those interested, here's a take from Bryan after that incident https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2013/11/30/the-power-of-a-prono...
I didn't know about that incident before starting at Oxide, but if I'd known about it, it absolutely would have attracted me. I've written a large amount of technical content and not once in over a decade have I needed to use he/him pronouns in it. Bryan was 100% correct.