5% of the number of commits, came on the project last year vs been there from the start 5 years ago, pulling stunts like this at the conference... yeah, he'd be a great replacement
giving him the benefit of doubt: maybe he was just unable to articulate properly that he noticed some problems in the redis community and thought it would be better if $WHATEVER happened.
Edit - particularly galling given this graph https://github.com/antirez/redis/graphs/contributors