In reply to Daan van den Bergh.

“He cited WordPress.org’s lack of a straightforward way to alert users to important updates, users abusing the Reviews section to file issues, the inability to disable support, and the cumbersome plugin release process.”

This nailed it! I’ve repaired some plugins over the years, and worked with plugin owners to push those fixes… but have not contributed them back to the plugin repository because maintaining them is a pain and a half.

I hope that there’s a roadmap to continue improving the developer experience. More and more devs are joining WordPress from learning to code in bootcamps that teach Github. And if I, with 10+ years of WordPress, find it super challenging… I can’t imagine what these new developers are feeling when it comes to contributing.