I’m appalled that open verse is integrated into this plugin and will be extremely disappointed if this is rolled into core

As :

Most people don’t need it,
Not sure if the ownership structure of the openverse project but it is clearly controlled by Automattic. This is (another) massive conflict of interest that many of us would not comfortable with in core

Note I’ve no issue encapsulating openverse functionality into a separate problem, but I am if this is going to be foisted into core