"There has been tension between the volunteer community and the WMF in the past" - there has. From my perspective, the WMF are now more aware that they need to act with, and in support of, the community structures such as ArbCom rather than undermining or bypassing them. ArbCom are more aware of the need to keep a tidy house (for want of a better metaphor).
"there may be more with the universal code of conduct now in force" -
(according to the sales pitch) The UCoC was crafted to encapsulate the basics of good behaviour as defined in enwiki's policies and apply them across all WMF's projects. As such enwiki is the project least likely to need recourse to UCoC remedies. Our own home-grown policies should have tried-and-trusted pathways to resolve relevant issues.
To your Elbonian issues...
The RFA, its conduct, considering the legitimacy of votes cast, considering whether votes were solicited on the Elbonian wiki, and discerning the RFA'a outcome are in the care of the crats such as
yourself.
On the evidence presented, as an arbitrator, I'd be voting to decline the case requests as there is no evidence of any prior attempts at dispute resolution. I'll assume for the purposes of the question that the proper pre-arbitration steps have been taken.
You don't specify whether the longstanding admin who briefly fully protected the talkpage was reverted or self-reverted. It's not a desysop issue unless the longstanding admin refuses to see any problem with their action. As the case has presumably been discussed on the longstanding admin's user talk page and at WP:AN prior to the case request we may be looking at an admin who has lost touch with community expectations of how their tools are to be used.
Absent any specifics I'm unsure whether our new young admin is being doxxed (oversight action perhaps leading to an oversight bloc of the doxxer) or where it's a plain old personal attack which is best handled as an admin action (perhaps by an arbitrator).
Having disposed of the issues under enwiki policy, I don't see a need to dip into the Universal Code of Conduct toolbox for remedies.
FWIW, I have on one occasion privately suggested a remedy under UCoC. As in the examples you present, the issue got resolved through more customary means.
Cabayi (
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