In reply to Bastian.

In fact I see the opposite happening. The last couple of years big companies are taking over the community and are making the decisions. I’ve seen dedicated contributors for years step back from the community because of the way they’ve been treated by these company folks. This is poison to the community. This also goes for flaming and making assumptions on other people.

Agreed. Nowadays, it’s devs paid by either Automattic, 10up or Human Made calling the shots in core.