In reply to David Hoy.

WordPress is actually a product. It is marketed as free, which is used to generate income for the rest of the empire.

The community is just fine. Well, most of us. Some don’t look upon others as positively as they could, but that is the nature of a community.

Core has had issues for many years. Even those who work on it admit there are significant improvements which could be made. It’s getting everyone to agree which direction needs to be taken that gets in the way sometimes.

While there are some bad apples in the plugin/theme development, there are a whole lot of good products out there. Some in WordPress repositories and some in outside shops.

As far as “horrible bloggers” copying and pasting, I have to agree, there are a lot of rehashings going on, but I’m not seeing where even this comment is providing much originality. We all take from someone else to get what we need out of what we are doing. Even the most arrogant do it. They just don’t admit it.