I recommend SiteGround to my theme customers and was going to add "SiteGround is recommended by WordPress.org" to give the recommendation some extra weight. But then it occurred to me that my customers might also think Bluehost is a great option. So I didn't do it.

WordPress.org is losing some credibility with the community over this. And I wonder, how can that be worthwhile?

What I know is this. There is already enough of a problem created by sham review sites without WordPress.org's continuation of this surprising recommendation. And nobody has done more than Kevin to try and turn that massive tide by shining a big light on what customers say about their web hosts.