Sarah, thank you so much for picking up this story and telling it to the Tavern audience! I’m glad that a broader range of people is being made aware of it, and I’m grateful Monica and her team decided to take action so swiftly and gracefully after listening to my perspective.

Obviously, some people will choose to disregard a positive change that happened thanks to no caring, effort, or diplomacy of their own, and they will feel the urge to turn even a happy occasion like this one into yet another bash fest.

But I’m confident that the majority of WordPress community folks inside and outside of Automattic will see this signal as what it is: a small, yet important step in the right direction.