@Harry

Charities etc are always in competition among themselves for a bigger piece of the available dollar. Or to put it another way, anyone can quickly find good causes for all the available funding ... and urgently solicit for more.

It kinda goes with the territory, that one person's priority is another's indulgence. Lung cancer addresses a much larger problem, but breast cancer is a very popular cause.

There isn't any percentage, in a charitable entity sniping at what another receives.

Don't miss The Anointing of Jesus, for a 2,000 year old version of this very lament, straight out of the Classics. (Admiring women pours year's wage worth of precious oil on Jesus' feet, to which critics object that the money could have gone to the poor, etc. Sound familiar?)
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This is the Tenth Anniversary of WordPress. San Francisco is an important business & cultural center for it. This is the city near Silicon Valley. Sniff if you like, but the world is what the world is.

The beloved Golden Gate Bridge is a profound tourism-draw, but it's been hard to get a bigger slice of the attention shifted to The Bay Bridge (where the lights are). This is also a very picturesque structure, and in time will also be something people will go out of their way merely to 'experience'. That's a big part of what the lights are about.

Public art does attract controversy, but that's probably more a feature, than a bug.

The expenses that this contribution defrays will come due incrementally over the next 2 years, and this can play out in favor of the contributor's resources.

In terms of public relations and the intangibles of the WordPress brand, The Bay Lights funding is a wise move, and will only improve over the life of the project.