I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. So-called premium themes on fire off the shoulder of cheap web hosting. I watched highly-optimised themes glitter in the dark near the Google Lighthouse. All those environments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... except they won't, because someone will end up needing to maintain these many flavours of WordPress.

Having the ".org vs .com" conversation with new clients was never much fun, but the last couple of years has seen the scope expand to include "classic", "block", and "FSE". My experience has been this can be confusing and quite worrying for clients, forever nudged along by a fear of not having the latest-and-greatest.

I don't know if this really applies, but what has happened to decisions, not options? I would really like to see WordPress choose a more specific path and own it. WordPresses feels very clumsy to say.