The Carbon language has a notion of a 'painter', a designated person to handle design debates that are just bikeshedding ("choosing the colour").
Less dramatic than a BDFL, and a cute name.
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/docs/project/evolution.md#painter
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