In reply to David Artiss.

2) “WordPress” isn’t doing anything about it. You see, Matt announced this project and promptly assigned the dev and design leads.

This is a true statement. Automattic is quick to point out how WordPress is a community effort and transparent, but then fail to explain how major decisions are made. Sure, you can dig around in Github for day-to-day conversations, but the larger decisions are not being discussed publicly.

Look at the React debate; they took so much heat that it forced an open forum for discussion. Since the discussions, literally nothing has been said about any decision. The obvious PR move here is to wait until Gutenberg is launch-ready and then tell everyone a decision has been made to use React.

How are WP based businesses supposed to plan for the future when Automattic is the only one who knows what the whole plan is? How is that in the spirit of the WordPress foundation?