I would understand if its by error but based on how it was banned it did feel deliberate. Also I have written email to core member before making a decision to leave the community. I think a community can only thrive when they are nice to humans. Here it felt like zig is worse then a oligopoly where few core members can block anyone without any reason and don't even have a courtesy to send a message. I worked with python community since its beginning, same worked with linux community since 1992, never seen such attitude even though both of the projects were driven by benevolent dictators, but they did care about the community around it. I still have one major work [1] in zig, which I will still release but after this won't work on zig. Zig community felt like a hostile ologipoly of few core members without proper due process, when it comes to treating humans.
[1] https://github.com/insanai/sibuna