> Pushes Calypso/React/JS that nobody wants
> Pushes Gutenberg/React/JS that nobody wants
> Pushes Jetpack on WP.com and WP.org that nobody wants

Glimpse of 2020:

The "featured plugins" section of WP.org now consists entirely of Jetpack, WooCommerce, VaultPress, Gutenberg Themes, Gutenberg Plugins, Calypso Themes, and the Calypso client. In order to download any of these, you need to have Jetpack installed, but in order to communicate with the Jetpack API, you'll have to use a Calypso client, which you login to via the WP.com SSO page.

"wplite" is now the most popular fork of what was formerly known as WordPress software. It is compatible with any theme or plugin built for the pre-5.0 version of WordPress, and still uses PHP, despite the religious obsession over JS continuing at WP.com...

Speaking of the devil, WP.com has fully bought out WP Engine's shareholders and intellectual property (and blackhat SEO) and is gobbling up the WordPress hosting world. It continues to "follow" and emulate other industry players like Shopify, with WooCommerce heavily investing into better Amazon.com integration, since Amazon capital is invested into Shopify, although WP.com is still suffering from an identity crisis due to having for years tried to simultaneously copy both Wix and Medium. Because Automattic's investors don't know a thing about web hosting, and because Mullenweg's paranoia and desperation to be recognized as a "disrupter" on par with Zuckerberg drive most decisions, the company continues to come out with new React-based features, completely unaware that most high-end publishers (and Core contributors) like the New York Times have already switched over to "wplite"...

Or, hire this man as a strategic consultant?

https://john.onolan.org/calypso/

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