First, WordPress stuck with React after Facebook made the smallest licensing concession, then WordPress coordinated with Google developers on the WordPress.org

First, WordPress stuck with React after Facebook made the smallest licensing concession, then WordPress coordinated with Google developers on the WordPress.org source code to integrate with AMP, and now WooCommerce is partnering with Google, which of course they would feel compelled to do via a kind of prisoner's dilemma with their competitor, Shopify. People tend to deride WordPress source code on a technical level, but they forget about it and the ecosystem's importance as _free_, GPL tools that power over 1/4 of the web. Google is swinging its full weight into undermining this ecosystem so that it can turn WordPress.org source code into more ad real estate.