"Exactly because GPL is very important for the growth of the WordPress community.." blah , blah,blah,...

No. WordPress grew because it was FREE , as in beer. 99% people could care less or even know about GPL. They want free as in no charge. A fifty cents charge would cause a huge drop in downloads rate. And yet we still have people who confuse free beer with free speech. Cult members please note: outside of your bubble, NO ONE cares about the code. No one cares about the freedom to read or modify the code. They just don't want to pay.

Automattic is a hosting company. It is not a software company. They don't want software behind a paywall. It is not a bad company. It provides value to countless people and it is the main support and contributor to WordPress, the software. But as a hosting company, its interests are different from a software company.