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No single entity controls Bitcoin Core, so the answer can only be no. Organizations have different strategies to get people to contribute to it, like targetting specific continents of origin, languages, university graduates, seasoned engineers, etc. In the end only effective contributors are successful.
I wouldn't call it "insinuations of conspiracy" either. I've had plenty of interesting conversations with him that all left me with a new perspective. He does accuse Bitcoin Core of gatekeeping both the consensus code and funding, but I think that is kind of understandable given his project and that he wants people to take it seriously.
Voskuil is keeping quiet here because https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/wiki/Spam-Misnomer . He's been plenty loud at questioning Bitcoin Core's motives.
This was heavily discussed on the mailing list https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/YO8ZwnG_ISs at the time.
He really could have properly cited that work. A reorg that deep is unlikely even in a deep chain split scenario. The default buffer of non-pruned data offers good protection. Section 11 of the whitepaper explains chain splits and why it is very difficult to catch up comprehensively and is a good antidote to people fudding this topic over the past half year.
Come to think of it, quite a long time ago.