Neither of them come out of this looking any good.

Neither are fighting a clean fight.

I fear for WordPress. I know it will go on, but with all the bickering going on now, the WP community, it's greatest asset, the thing that made it a success in the first place is being split apart by stubborn egos and pedantic idealism. The greatest threat to WP (as many empires have found) is not from outside, but from within. When the community bleeds, WP bleeds.