Catching up on the latest Wordpress/Tumblr drama(s) and ...
How difficult is it for a medium sized company with decent revenue and a ton of goodwill from their community to not fuck over their userbase?
Automattic gets so much good will from the existence of the wordpress foundation. They power half the internet! Still! With PHP!
I use wordpress in dozens of places, and I've been a wordpress admin and developer for nearly two decades, and now I have to *opt out* of AI training, *and* worry about what social signals I'm sending my continuing to use wordpress.