I'm just a 'user' so I realize my feedback is insignificant. However, I'm really annoyed that it's super hard to find totally free plugins and themes in the wash of freemium things. It seems as if nothing is totally free anymore, nothing decent at least. That's cool, but it really puts off new users, especially young people just getting started who don't have any money. I feel like Wordpress is going to see it's population age and die off because it's becoming too commercial. Most can't even get support without paying. And things are always breaking, especially freemium things. Like hey, I just got Sensei which was a giant investment from a reputable company and guess what, it takes 1500MB and crashes my whole shared server. Things like that are annoying. Refund? Never. I'm okay with developers getting some money around Wordpress. But it really began as a resource. Now it's becoming monetized, commercial and capitalistic. And what stinks most is out of it all, Wordpress itself is still free and really not making anything itself. So it's like someone bringing a cake to a party and not getting a slice.

I think the themes and plugins should use: Free (Totally Free, no paid upgrades), Lite (It's good, but there's 1 Pro Version Upgrade of the whole thing) Ext (Extendable- meaning it's what it is, but has purchasable extensions.) Free extensions can just ride as free. Otherwise, nothing not-free to some extent should be allowed in the repository, it kind of defies the spirit of the way everything's licensed. Unless .org wants to try to compete with something like codeacademy but with lower fees, then it'll really need a system to weed through to find free plugins. There really needs to be free plugins is my point. Because NEW people and young people haven't the investment. Or else the userbase is going to age- slowly, but it will.