At one point I started working in WordPress because I thought its community and ethos were somehow “better” than other tech. While better is an open term I think I can roughly define it as “more honest about who we are and what we stand for.”
The truth was, like anything else where $ is involved, it wasn’t just “not better” but actively worse in how it compensated labor even less than “big tech” telling people they deserve it because of WordPress’ “virtues.”