Later the author makes the point that the funding was secured based on the association with the Godot project, not only the reputation of the founders. That may be naive but it's not unreasonable. It does seem disingenuous for Juan to turn around a few months later and say there is an existential crisis with the project funding. Surely the startup funding at least pays for the core maintainers to continue maintaining.

Now of course, anyone who knows startups knows the founders are suddenly going to be way deep managing a company and not have time to do OSS management. There should have been a plan to delegate responsibilities to a dedicated employee or other member of the community. The lack of time to manage the OSS and the appearance of a conflict of interest is not hard to predict here...