In reply to Steve.

WordPress is what it is because of the community as a whole. All the themes. All the plugins. All the contributors. You also forget that Matt had a co-founder and didn't fork b2 and create WordPress on his own.

Saying the community should bow down to Matt, allow him to simply do what he pleases, and that we owe him everything is outrageously absurd.

It's a symbiotic relationship and works both ways. Matt would not be where he is without the WordPress community and contributors.

That certainly doesn't mean neither he or anyone else wouldn't have been successful doing something else. But WordPress is what it is because of the entire ecosystem. Not because of any single individual.