If five years ago I would have read this as a parody I would have dismissed it as unbelievable. Unpaid volunteers go on strike and the resulting agreement is a bureaucratic masterpiece of procedures that (probably) don't solve the problem and create working groups to establish more of them. What a world we live in.
What are the circumstances where StackOverflow is still competitive against ChatGPT? As far as I can tell SO.com and google are both obsolete for getting answers to programming questions. I haven't used either in a while and as locally hosted LLMs get more pervasive I don't see the situation tilting back towards those services.
My faith in the bureaucracy that maintains SE was irrevocably destroyed when Monica Cellio was terminated. An act of complete insanity and cowardice will do that.