To me it feels that WordPress is at the crossroad – should it be a community project as it always was, or should it become (some may think: to “graduate”) a corporate project – a wheel that is being used frequently in the industry, is developed by powerful industry and accordingly, governed by industry? Both ways are viable – WP as a project would survive and probably thrive, but the surroundings of the project, the atmosphere would be totally different.

I read WPTavern many years and I noticed that people are less and less vocal about important issues… it’s like they are tired of this.

Perhaps that was the intention – “let them talk until they’re tired and then do it your way”?

When Gutenberg controversy happened many people said that forking is not the solution (when ClassicPress happened), but we forgot about the Ghost – it looks they are fine and they are thriving.

So perhaps let it be – let the WP.org become corporate product with it drive for features and cold corporate governance structure and the fork would become community product that would have warm and great community.

And big thank you to Morten and Cherry for opening the can of worms!