Chris has just written about leaving WordPress due to it’s current governance structure. He ends with a plea to those still working in WordPress:

I do, however, ask that you please consider the effects your actions have on others and be careful not to lead new victims to future abuse.

I currently work on a set of WordPress sites, helping cities get information to their residents. Ultimately, I run a small web host which means I work with Kubernetes, Laravel, Elastic and yes the sites are on WordPress. This work over the last 3 years has pulled my further from a pure WP developer into the technology listed above, and more importantly has helped me out of the technology funk I’ve been in for years.

Yes I build WordPress sites, but I just did it because it paid well. I didn’t care much about the work, I certainly wasn’t interested in it.

But Laravel, NixOS, and a bunch of the stuff I’m working with now do interest me enough that I’m tinkering with them on the weekends.

I can’t say goodbye to WordPress at this moment because it feeds my kids and keeps a roof over their heads, but I’m far less reliant on it than I have been in the past.

I’m not interested in supporting Matt the dictator and think his actions are actively harmful to the WordPress ecosystem, small businesses, and individuals. I’m lucky I can say that when many others can’t.