The catch was, while WordPress hosts pay better than the rest of WP, it still wasn’t nearly what I could make outside of WP. It was, however, far more than I needed for my life so.. fine. At least they were honest.
As WP itself has started it’s decent to irrelevancy (well before I left WP Engine) and as more and more good people were abused in the name of the WP “community” virutues I just hit the point where I couldn’t stomach it anymore.