It seems to me Matt increasingly fails to differentiate properly between WP, WC and A8C….

Sure GD is in many ways an existential threat (ie. competitor) to Automattic and WooCommerce…. But it’s far less of an existential threat to WP itself than A8C has long been.

A8C has steered WP hard into directions clearly designed favor wp.com and WC often at the expense of other users of WP. Anyone using WP as a general purpose CMS has long gotten the short end of the stick with disregard for very large sites, disregard for CPTs, disregard for custom fields, disregard for much of anything that didn’t further the needs to wp.com and WC.

And don’t even get me started on JP.

If anything having an elephant sized competitor to the 800lb gorilla might be a good thing for WP. See what I did there?

I’m no huge fan of GD, but I’ve seen their contributions and they’re not trivial nor warrant this kind of shade being thrown from Matt.