Not a fan of WPE, which destroyed Flywheel, one of the most brilliant companies and teams I’ve ever dealt with. Also not much of a fan of Wordpress.org after u

Not a fan of WPE, which destroyed Flywheel, one of the most brilliant companies and teams I’ve ever dealt with. Also not much of a fan of Wordpress.org after using it for 15+ years (and recently ditching it), but that’s mainly because of having to field questions from non-technical friends who have bloated awful Wordpress sites riddled with malware or abandonware. Even less of a fan of Wordpress.com But in the bigger picture Wordpress - or the idea of Wordpress - is a good thing. But who on earth is advising Mullenweg here? Or is he so powerful within the Wordpress ecosystem that he can just do crazy things like this and everyone bends to him as WP BDFL? (Though arguably now more D than B) I thought his presentation where he kicked off this war was a little odd. He seemed either very nervous or very amped up, there were a lot of awkward vocal ticks/tremors/nervous laughter/heavy breathing in his run up to his “big reveal”. Or maybe he’s always like that. This was my first time watching him speak and I came away thinking less of him and less of WPE. But mainly less of him because I already had a pretty febrile opinion of WPE. This latest salvo is just crazy. As someone else in this thread has said it’s Muskesque. But maybe that’s the strategy. “Just be out and out crazy and burn everything to the ground to try and save it”. I wonder how many “normal” wordpress users are aware of this stuff, or whether it’s confined to a little bubble of tech industry folk reaching for the popcorn?