I disagree. Provoking up a mob on social media will not endear you to anyone. You're just making the gatekeeper's jobs harder, and since their job is hard enough, they will simply gatekeep you to simplify things.
Regardless of whether you think the project should be maintained differently, that's not your call, that's their call. Fork it if you want different policies.
Isn't that also what Linus is doing but on a professional forum, which is even worse? The issue comes down to de-escalation, and there wasn't enough on both sides. It's also not unreasonable to expect more from a figure head who is a role model in open-source development in general.
A maintainer's job is to keep contributors on track and in line so the project moves in the right direction, and he did so on the forum in which it's supposed to happen. Not sure what the issue is.
Regardless of whether you think the project should be maintained differently, that's not your call, that's their call. Fork it if you want different policies.