@Kevinjohn Gallagher - Yes, there certainly could be an issue.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011 powers 22% of all new websites.[4] WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet.[5][6]

MATT MULLENWEG
is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web, and Vanity Fair’s Next Establishment. ...

Is Mark Zuckerberg a moral defective? Is Facebook Big Brother II?

Is Sergey Brin an ethical reprobate? Is Google Beijing's Goskomizdat?

Probably not ... but see Rule #1.

Certainly, there's been a detectable tendency for awhile now, that anything said about WordPress should be a Kumbaya, or it's a dirge. That is a clue, and warning-sign.