Transparency and fairness are definitely important to keep people motivated across an organization. That doesn't make it easy to deal with of course, but that's where managers should focus.

The HDMI Forum is really an annoying body to say the least... they lack so much transparency.

To take with a pinch of salt since it has a couple of biases (most notably it focuses a lot on satisfaction) and the sample size is a bit small. A few interesting insights nonetheless. In particular it hints at autonomy, transparency, technical skills and vision as being the most important factors for satisfaction and success within teams. The applied project management method? Not so important it seems if the other factors are satisfied.

Things don't look great in this giant... it's astonishing how much eroding vision and transparency can hurt an organization.

There's definitely a problem here. The lack of transparency from the involved companies doesn't help. It's also a chance for local and self-hostable models, let's hope their use increases.