That "single individual on a mailing list" is Ryan Sleevi, who is basically the voice of Google in all matters to do with TLS PKI, and as I understand it is not working with a "opinions my own" cop-out in this context. It's not some rando
It’s still one person. There needs to be a consensus, and that consensus hasn’t been reached. As has already been mentioned in other comments, Mozilla said they wouldn’t enforce the 7-day deadline.