> He considers Wordpress "his" even though...he took it over from the original author who was abandoning the project.

Non Wordpress user here, not a blogger, don’t use CMSs. Curious about this line. Reading the history on Wikipedia, the original b2 was the precursor. It was pretty small and being abandoned. Matt proposed forking it in January 2003, and worked with Mike to bring the first version to fruition a few months later. 22 years later it’s a goliath.

Given that history it seems totally fair for Matt to consider WP his thing. You don’t seem to think so, can you explain?

That's all true and does not conflict. There is nothing to explain.