

Thunderbird is not a Mozilla project. It is independent of Mozilla including it’s financing and has been for several years now.
My understanding is MZLA was set up so Thunderbird could accept donations and manage it’s own finances independently of Mozilla. There have been no allegations anywhere that MZLA has been mismanaged.
The journalists who published these articles had an opportunity to educate their readers by not spreading misinformation and by not misrepresenting Thunderbird’s relationship to Mozilla.
The issue here isn’t the disdain anyone has for Mozilla (although that might be yours). The issue is the misrepresentation of Thunderbird as a Mozilla project by news media.