> I agree, introducing it into the core should have and could have been a constructive move way before given how important the plugin is in the WP ecosystem. T

> I agree, introducing it into the core should have and could have been a constructive move way before given how important the plugin is in the WP ecosystem. There was a (stalled) core Fields API effort. The project lead abandoned core WP development ironically because of Matt's behaviour: https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/fields-api/ https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/fields-api/