Matt Mullenweg's heart is in the right place, and his spirit is the kind we want leading us from misstep to pothole.

WordPress' blind-alleys are routinely committed by individuals entrusted with (would-be) hefty project-implementations and (erstwhile) strategic experiments. In the recurring aftermath the staff roster shows the offenders mostly stay in place.

You just can't teach kids about matches any better, than by letting them burn down the house. Long-term, Matt and Org and Com have some phenomenally matured team players.

Remember WP_v3.7? The 10th Anniversary Special Release? Centerpiece of a summer-long celebration? Yeah ... ssssssPLAT. What happened (er, didn't) is forensically identifiable, and they still have matches in their pocket.

Themes, especially, have slam-banged off both guard-rails pretty much non-stop since their introduction. There is nothing new in the current ambiguity of theme-management/policy.

Matt clearly knows that we can't know very well where we are going, or not going. Not long ago he tipped his hand, mentioning that not chasing Mobile earlier was his big regret/lapse. He (thought he) was going somewhere else, and Mobile was not the "X" on his map. Wrong.

Even if Mr. Mullenweg ends up with a product that I don't want, that doesn't aid & abet an outcome or world-view I want to be part of, he's still responding - properly/optimally - to opportunities and limitations as fast as they become discernible. We all know that you can't please everyone - though we always think that will be someone else.

It's just that WP is white-knuckling it down the freeway at 80 clicks, in a pea-soup fog ... and really has no choice or option.