The pineapple checkbox was the last straw

"We’ve also faced intense criticism and even personal attacks against a number of Automatticians from members of the “community” who want Matt and others to step away from the project," writes Automattic on their official blog.

Yes, Automattic, you have faced intense criticism. And, at this point, I don't actually care who is right and who is wrong. I don't care what caused the issue one bit. What I do care about is the fact that some senior member of your team was able to push an asinine code change live, unchecked -- or, if it was checked/approved, the senior team condoned this action as a good idea.

[] Pineapple is delicious on pizza.

It's silly, right? And, this isn't a post about the benefits/horrors of pineapple on pizza. That checkbox was the last straw because a business that runs a fair chunk of the web pushed this code live -- a BUSINESS did this -- not a person with a grudge, a business. Can I continue to trust a business with my code if this is how they are managed? No, I can't.

Automattic, like it or not, is WordPress. Maybe all of this hullabaloo will result in WPengine forking WordPress (like WordPress forked cafelog/b2 back in the day), but why wait around to find out? WordPress is built on 20-year-old assumptions about site design/management. Why not investigate new ways of doing things? Why not use this proof that Automattic is an unfit steward of the project to investigate alternatives?