In reply to Brent Shepherd.

I haven’t seen a single pull request … from someone outside Automattic,

From following the conversation, it seems like everybody from outside Automattic’s hope is that they’ll just press the “revert” button on the original merge, because the whole idea will scream “hi guys, it’s amateur hour, this is a plugin for mom-and-pop shops only” at users.

Some people have suggested alternative areas of the dashboard where marketing is appropriate, but looking to third parties to produce code to tune Automattic’s marketing and stop themselves shooting themselves in the foot sounds a bit optimistic.

Does code really win arguments at Facebook? If so, it’s hard to know why Facebook is still a creepy universal surveillance machine. I suspect that in reality, being Mark Zuckerberg and being able to say “the owners require profits, so do as I tell you” is what wins arguments.