In reply to Michael.

It’s not that they messed up and admitted it. It’s that they can and do routinely break the rules that would get other plugin authors thrown out of the repository.I was referring to this. I read this as that you are upset and blame Yoast for getting some sort of "special treatment". That is what I call barking up the wrong tree.

Take this up with the plugin theme that set the rules. Personally I don't think Yoast gets a special treatment but a lot of people seem to think so. You also mentioned the word routinely. I would not call an incident (or 2 maybe) a routine. Honestly, I've seen much worse.

Also nowhere did I say that what has happened was ok (neither did Yoast). I was annoyed as well, for about 2 seconds and then I moved on. It was poor judgement from their perspective, nothing more, nothing less.