In reply to Jill Shapteron.

@Jill Shapteron I would argue that’s a very one-sided way of looking at the relationship between WP and Elementor.

WP is a great platform that deserves a lot of credit for “democratizing the web” and empowering millions of publishers around the world. It is needless to say we all are very grateful for that.
Having said that, it would be unjust to ignore how much of WordPress’s success has a to do with the ecosystem that has grown around it. WordPress, without themes and plugins, would never have become so big. This is particularly true when it comes to plugins like Elementor – a plugin that has played a key role in attracting new users to the WP platform in the past 5 years – Providing the user friendly experience users have come to expect from competing platforms.

In addition, it’s unfair to ignore the fact Elementor too, just like WP, is open source, and released under the GPL license.
Sure, Elementor has a commercial service for Pro users, but isn’t that the case with WordPress.com too?

Not just users are drawn to the WP ecosystem by Elementor, so many developers have joined the flourishing space created for 3rd party add-ons, contributing even more value to WP users.

The whole reason plugins even exist, is because WordPress has never strived to be a full-featured standalone product by itself. It’s always been the case that plugins added more value to WordPress – which means, WP is admittedly lacking in some areas, leaving it to plugins to fill the gap.
±8M active Elementor installs will testify that’s the case with Elementor and page-building user experience.

So I don’t think your analogy, portraying Elementor as an ungrateful leech stealing clients from WordPress, is the best way to describe what’s going on.

I find it unfortunate that a Automattic is apparently using their influence to suppress the success of the most successful plugin on the platform.
I’m not sure that is the most forward thinking way to handle the situation.