Automattic did so much good for the open source community for ~20 years.
And yet, claiming it is defending open source ethics (of giving back) it committed blatant theft: stealing 13 years’ work and userbase of another team.
Absolutely unethical.
I no longer trust Automattic.
So this is the future of WordPress. Automattic - the entity controlling Wordpress .org and the WP trademark - can take over *any* plugin that it wants, when they want, and how they want.
Automattic is burning the principles of open source for their own profit.
A sad, new era.