Is There a Single Point of Failure in Open Source?

In open source, it's all about meritocracy. Like you earn these virtual merits as you contribute. That's how you become a country core contributor. If community is based on meritocracy principles, I think it is very easy not to have like single point of failures. One year I contribute more the other I contribute less. The year when my contributions are low levels,. It is very easy for somebody else to have a vote to, you know, take over my tasks and it is a natural organic process that we managed to implement in BTC base server. And yeah, I just want to don't want the retirement thing for people to get it wrong. Because I think retirement can also be