Today’s actions by @photomatt will make it much more difficult to recommend WordPress to customers in the future.

The message says, ”If you want to experience WordPress, use any other host in the world besides WP Engine.”

That might be great advice for today, but what about two years from now? What guarantee do we have that at WordCamp 2026 that @photomatt won't get pissed at some other sponsor and cut off access to WordPress.org?