In reply to James -Striking Development Team.

Yes, I mostly agree with you here.

Community response has been warranted for the fact that there was a security issue (that was patched 6 MONTH AGO).

But this entire outrage seems to be more about disliking authors making themes that have hundreds of options rather than authors including a feature that their buyers are actually asking for (Slider Rev).

The bullying of Envato by many in the WordPress Community isn't about the Slider Revolution plugin, it's a long time festering dislike for themes with too many options and years of authors developing themes that don't adhere to WordPress standards.

So if you're going to bash on a company and the authors on their platform, bash them for the reason that you're actually upset about. Nagging on about this plugin's long fixed security issue is hypocritical to say the least.