I’m the original author of the Dark Mode plugin. After the Core Team decided that they weren’t interested in pursuing it because of Gutenberg development. So for that reason I decided what was the point?

I asked if anyone wanted to take over and I passed it onto someone who passed it onto someone who passed it… you get the point.

It then has reached the new authors that have decided to try and benefit off the current install base to push their own product.

More needs to be done to ensure this doesn’t happen but frankly everyone is at fault. I should have just abandoned it, failing that the plug-in team should have given it to someone who was interested in it and a system should be in place to detect ownership changes that alerts users of this nonesense.