In reply to BJ.

So the implication is that "democratic" WordPress is not open to people who are not "core team."

I had a Automattic employee openly stalk me on Facebook to the point where I had to block her. She was telling me I had no right to my opinion, should never speculate, on and on. And kept saying how great everything was like a Jonestown groupie. But that's to be expected. She was told to go do something, so she does it with a vengeance.

Matt has stakeholders and investors breathing down his neck to compete with Wix and get some of their market share. WP users and volunteers will either get in line behind the Boss or will be left in the dust. Some have been. Yoast said he would "raise Hell" if Gooberborg were released in December. Guess he lost his will to do that very quickly.

It's pretty clear as the rising sun in the morning. Mullenweig doesn't give two coughs about you, me, or anyone else but his investors and core group. If this were not true, he would have said "let's roll this thing out incrementally, so it won't crash sites and leave all our plugin developers in the cold, or disenfranchise our army of developers. Let's release it January 1st, with lots of advance notice so everyone can get used to it and then make it a optional plugin until everybody has a time to use it and our reviews are not all 1 star stinkers." That would make logical sense, but would require a level of empathy and compassion that simply isn't there. And if you think I'm exaggerating just go to any Facebook forum and look at all the sites going to white screen, crashing, people who are confused or stressed out, all the plugin developers losing their incomes, and on and on.