In reply to Mika E (Ipstenu).

@Mika - Absolutely zero reason for you to feel that you have to defend anything. Personally I think it is insane how much you guys (THE WP Team) take on personally. Obviously your workload is divided up into teams within THE WP Team, but still as WP popularity only continues to increase and more and more folks use WordPress then the strain and workload for you guys will only continue to increase. Users are asking for more personal hands-on attention more and more. Something has to give at some point. ;) I posted a general though in another WP Tavern post to maybe farm out things/tasks to a 3rd party source. Maybe the day is coming (or has arrived) where supply and demand for everything WordPress is just too much to handle for you guys in-house and it is time to farm out non-critical/non-essential stuff to a 3rd party to take some of the workload/strain off of you guys so that you can focus on strictly essential/critical WP stuff.