[nailer]

Won’t solve problems. Web Publish still needs to run all the infrastructure that Wordpress dot org does.

[bubblesnort]

Not really.

WordPress continues to function in airplane mode with the airplane mode plugin.

And besides, you have to start somewhere. There could be a bunch of independant plugin and theme registries just like there are with Minecraft mods and resource packs. GitHub already serves this purpose for me with WordPress.