In reply to Ryan Hellyer.

Aubrey Capitol/Automattic controls WP its a known fact. Nacin is chief lead dev and Matt owns him, Aubrey capital or whatever. There are no real difference. Automattic/Aubrey Capital/Matt controls WP. To say its not about Automattic etc is precisely what is very wrong with the WP community. The power concentration is very high. Nacin, Boren, Ozz, Westwood all lead devs, all employed by Matt through Aubrey or Automattic. Only jaquith is lone gunner but I feel he is very entrenched with the rest anyway.

You can see prominent WP core devs give the finger to the end users in this ticket. https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/14682
Aubrey Capitol and Automattic employees voting against fixing the issue. So its indeed a problem with Automattic/Aubrey Capitol influence on the development of WP core to say otherwise is to put ones head in the sand, cover ones ears and sing lalalalaa.