Now this is certainly an interesting article. The fact that it is written by a board member, makes this story all the more interesting.
Here is the problem: fiduciary responsibility as a number one priority means that the most important thing for the organization is the continued existence of the organization. This means that any action we could take as an organization that carried any sort of significant risk of us losing a chunk of members (or god forbid, our corporate sponsorships) would be immediately shot down by a majority of board members with some variation of the refrain, "My fiduciary responsibility to the organization prevents me from supporting this." What this translated to: anyone with an agenda that promoted anything but the status quo would be heavily challenged. Even something relatively innocuous like, "Instead of pointing out bad studios to work for, let’s highlight some good studios to work for!" was cause for alarm because it would surely alienate a never-specified number of people whose memberships we couldn’t stand to lose!
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