“I think this is known as biting the hand that feeds. If you’re going to crap all over WP and admonish the workflow then at least try not to build your entire business on top of it first.”

Often the phrase “biting the hand that feeds” is used in the context of a platform and its 3rd parties when 3rd parties create and built their businesses on new features that help the platform grow because the platform did not provide the feature.

The “biting” occurs when the platform decides to co-op for their own the features the 3rd parties built their business on, such as like when a platform decides to offer full-site editing and thus kneecap its 3rd party whose businesses depend on that need existing in the platform’s ecosystem?

#anotherperspective #justsaying #thoughihavenodoginthishunt

P.S. The reality is both sides need to evolve, but the platform is in the position of power, not the 3rd party, and so an ethical platform would be very careful about how they co-opt 3rd party features, and they should work with their 3rd parties to minimize disruption to those businesses. Of course this is WordPress, so I doubt they concern themselves too much with what helps or harms their 3rd parties. #jmtcw