In reply to Jeffrey.

WordPress.org remains a community project. Matt can pull the covers a long way his way, but at the end of the day, the Emperor's Tailor will be judged by the public. If you don't express your voice and you don't participate, you lose your vote.

As examples of code removed from WordPress, finally post formats was pulled in 2013 (there's an intriguing tweet in Weston's post by Matt which foreshadows Gutenberg):

What if post formats weren’t a type of post, but formats you could include in a post with multiples + and drag/drop/rearrange? #wcsf #sotw

Post formats were chasing Tumbler. Gutenberg is chasing (a dying) Medium. I hate writing in Medium (or even commenting there) despite the quality of the content. Some people love Medium though.