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“Is this so? I see online a lot of articles where people try to analyze a parsha or a gemora according to their understanding and maybe trying to line up with their opinions on other topics.”
Yes, and those people want an accurate translation. If anything, the secular scholarly world cares more about translation accuracy than we do. For example, Artscroll purposely mistranslates Shir Hashirim to better shtem with Orthodox sentiment; secular scholars would hate this.
“Not knowing the background, my impression was that the core Sefaria team is kosher”
The founders were not frum yidden from my understanding. They were exactly the scholarly types you reference above. Then again, so was Marcus Jastrow; it doesn’t mean the product is assur.
“Do you think all YWN software was written by shomer shabbos programmers or 99% of it is open software?”
First of all, yes, I don’t believe YWN was created through chillul shabbos. I’m not sure why you would assume otherwise. Second of all, the question is around Sefaria because of it being used for davening and/or performing mitzvos. An internet forum does not have these concerns.