Personally, I see elevating Fabrice Bellard to this godlike figure that nobody else can possibly touch as insulting to the whole rest of the multimedia community who helped maintain ffmpeg. Fabrice didn't touch ffmpeg past the first couple of years, and its infamy and usefulness started long after Fabrice stopped working on it.

Fabrice is extremely smart and talented. But there are plenty of unsung heroes in the multimedia work that should also get plenty of recognition, too.