One idea that crossed my mind is that Automattic found a security issue and now they can "force" WPEngine to come up with a mechanism for managing plugins on th

One idea that crossed my mind is that Automattic found a security issue and now they can "force" WPEngine to come up with a mechanism for managing plugins on their own. Then when all this hits the courts they point go "See, they could setup their own infrastructure in less than 30 days. They just choose to use ours to save money.". Or if WPEngine fails to do so, they lose credibility as a Wordpress hosting provider. Not sure, I'm not a lawyer.