Maybe? Looks to me though like the increasing centralisation around mastodon the brand and platform which eventually rubs against the decentralised “admins relying on community management and donations” nature of the rest of the Fedi.
Should admins feel left behind or unheeded by the platform devs but also feel compelled to rely on mastodon the platform, moments like this, like the default mastodon.social in the app, will look like underestimated mistakes.