I was wondering how bad the enshittification of the wordpress fauxpen-source world could get. The immediate WP kerfuffle is just a classic pissing match between adolescent tech bro egos. Beyond that though, it's what happens when alleged "open source" collides with contemporary tech culture greed and lust for power and control. It's a perversion of the original ethics of open source. Wordpress and similar fauxpen-source projects have become primarily scaffolds on which to hang paid products and services that are designed to lock users into their revenue stream . It's the FAAMG model, writ somewhat smaller but no less evil.