I feel like this developer was treated with the same level of trust (0) that big software companies receive nowadays after repeatedly violating the trust of the

I feel like this developer was treated with the same level of trust (0) that big software companies receive nowadays after repeatedly violating the trust of their users. That may have been unfair, but for him to be this caustic in his response for a bad feature that should have been segmented away via a plugin from the very beginning is a bad look. He jumped on the bandwagon, while not accurately gauging where public sentiment was and got burned. I'm at least quite glad that he listened and moved it into a separate plugin.