They had one. Until he made a fatal mistake of giving a tenner to the wrong people.

Why do you think a software engineer or computer scientist would be more qualified?

They need to build a great product as well as somehow fund the project. Seem like those credentials match the requirements.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have them program and let a product person handle big picture ideas

I'm afraid they're delegated to coding nowadays and even open source projects are run like corporations with attached "foundations" parasites where funneling out money on unrelated stuff occurs.

This piece linked is a dry marketing and nothing else, and I don't believe in a single bit this guy is saying or will ever say.

The line about AI being always a choice that user can simply turn it off: I need to go to about:config registry to turn every occurrence of it in Firefox. So there's that.

Yes and he is writing like an MBA/Product Manager (or is it the AI?)

Actually he is most likely a drone. Meaning he is speaking like he believes he is the CEO of a public company talking to the shareholders, so of course he talks about how AI is changing software.

But guess what Mozilla is not a public company, there is no stock to pump and the thing it really miss is its users. Going from 30% to less than 5% market share in 15 years with a good product. Actually I am pretty sure the users who left just do not want to much AI.

But he is an MBA drone so he is just gonna play the same music as every other MBA drone.