conlangs1-2  Exercise 3: Control and Community
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One possible answer.

Tight control can harm the spread: Schleyer kept control of Volapük and
resisted changes. When learners found the grammar hard and asked for
simplifications, the movement could not respond, so members split or left.
A language that cannot adapt to the people who want to use it loses them.

A loose approach with no control can also cause problems: if everyone changes
the language as they like, different groups drift apart, the grammar and
spelling stop being shared, and learners cannot tell what is correct. A
language meant as a bridge needs a stable core that everyone can rely on.

The balance (a fixed core with room for the community to grow the rest) is
what Chapters 3 and 11 return to.