Not that I think it's "the right thing to do", but WPEngine could almost certainly "move enough at once to clear the network effect". They host a _lot_ of site

Not that I think it's "the right thing to do", but WPEngine could almost certainly "move enough at once to clear the network effect". They host a _lot_ of sites. They were forced by Matt to maintain a mirror of the .org theme/plugin repos. They could very easily come up with a list of plugins that'll allow 99% or 99.9% or more of WP sites to work. They 100% have the technical skills and the cashflow and the business case to do this. They could very easily build and deploy this, and donate it to a properly managed foundation - the way Wordpress.org _ought_ to be. My guess is the only reason they haven't done it (or gone public with it if they're already building it) is because they're waiting for the lawsuit to give them most of Matt's and Automattic's money first.