@thadguidry, thank you for your feedback. We are in agreement; we are just saying the same things with different words.
As I mentioned in my PR comment, we agree that policies are not part of governance.
Your questions on who can change the governance and policies are on point. However, I would prefer if we addressed this in a later version so we can validate this first revision on the governance.
I also open Project Maintainer Status to understand the status of the Core Dev Group and how it fits in the current governance.