Sam Altman believes that the board members involved were generally well-meaning but that people in stressful, time-pressured situations often make suboptimal decisions, and he predicts that a future challenge for OpenAI will be to have a board and team capable of operating effectively under pressure.
I think the board members were far, well-meaning people on the whole. And I believe that in stressful situations where people feel time pressure or whatever, people understandably make suboptimal decisions.