[phatskat]

I worked with and advocated for WP for projects for years. It’s not pretty, but it is well-supported and well-understood; it gets the job done. With Matt’s treatment of WPEngine (with whom I’ve worked with on and off over many years, and have had nothing but good experiences) I’ve written the project off. It’s not just his response to WPE, but the threats, the dictatorial reactions to anyone speaking up, the blatant takeover of plugins etc. I was sad at first, but I’ve come to peace with never touching WP again if I can help it, and this is as a top contributor to the WP StackExchange - I _loved_ the project and the community, and helping others made my heart genuinely happy.