Biggest threat to WordPress IS NOT rude replies, passive-aggressive comments etc. The biggest threat to WordPress is not doing things that both the developers and users wants. You can call eachother names and whatever crap, you can say nice friendly things or whatever crap, neither matters if you do not deliver things people actually want. Contemplating how much time that has gone into a product does not do any good either. Whenever someone says bad things about WordPress or leadership etc there always comes response contemplate how fortunate etc blah. No kick it down from its pedestal, bring it down into the dirth when it can actually grow and evolve.

Giving a friendly reply but not reflecting on a suggestion is not in practice any better than giving a rude, passive aggressive reply but not honestly reflect on a suggestion. Both types of replies are at their core disrespectful and rude. A rotten egg is still rotten even if you paint it with pretty colours.

This whole we need to be friendly is just stupid. No, we need to be constructive and take peoples concerns and suggestions seriously. If you are friendly or rude when doing that, who gives a rats ass. First and foremost take peoples concerns seriously.