The good news: WordPress still works.
The bad news: They did something bad enough that we talked about on the #osspodcast,
The good news: what they did probably isn't bad enough for you to have to worry about...
The bad news: But if they keep going in this direction you will probably have to care.
Find out more with @joshbressers and @kurtseifried on the osspodcast https://opensourcesecurity.io/2024/10/13/episode-450-whats-wrong-with-wordpress/
TL;DR: When ecosystems are controlled by someone, hopefully they are benevolent and don't violate the social contracts that we think are in place.
But we seem to be in an era where eroding of trust to make a buck, and normalization of deviancy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance is becoming more common, and we should probably worry about that.