WordPress founder and a key advocate for the open source community

This should probably say self appointed advocate. He really hasn't advocated for much beyond collecting payments to Automattic.

Mullenweg responded to our inquiry, saying a blog post is forthcoming. When it dropped, it was about him buying a houseboat.

Either that or he somehow has control over IT and is just shit posting and controlling Slack.

As of yet, no one at Automattic has heard a confirmation from the board. Mark Davies’ Slack account was also deactivated, sources said.

mhm, ok.

After they saturated the market for lifetime buyers, they started launching new features not included for lifetime buyers. Annoying.

Then they started pushing advertising for upgrading. Very annoying.

Then they started taking away features lifetime plan users had already. Infuriating.

Then they made it so that support was only available for users on a subscription plan. My complaints weren’t even answered. Unforgivable.

Just saying, there are plenty of good CMSs out there now.

WordPress is junky AF, and the spat with WP Engine over... of all things... how they store backups... it was all so cringe. Felt like it boiled down to WP Engines saying, "We don't need to keep backups on the live server..." And WP saying, "Oh hell yeah you do, you can't have your own way to do rollbacks!" It was literally insane for them to fight about that.