I agree that WordPress has saturated their market and the drama certainly appears to be a cynical move to try to pry customers away from the competition. I agre

I agree that WordPress has saturated their market and the drama certainly appears to be a cynical move to try to pry customers away from the competition. I agree that future websites won't be built with WordPress. But I disagree that WordPress and its drama therefore don't matter for the future. If WordPress dies a slow death as it's phased out over decades, that gives us plenty of time to develop the next generation open source replacement. Given time, those of us who still want to have control over our web presence (which is a significant number of businesses in addition to those here) will develop alternatives. But if it dies a fiery death over the next year (as Matt seems determined it shall), then the author's prediction will come true—the proprietary locked-in stacks will welcome the WordPress refugees, many of whom will be businesses that will have soured on the idea of using "open source" if that means they're subject to the whims of some guy they've never heard of and have no relationship with. That's why the drama matters. Currently 43% of the web runs on an open source platform. Matt is putting that short-lived victory for open source in jeopardy.