It’s easy to point at politics or people and some sinister motive. Maybe that’s what it is. But don’t underestimate what can be accomplished through incompetence.

Shopify is a multi-billion dollar company that has processed over a trillion dollars. They are a high value target for sophisticated attackers. It’s entirely possible they are trying to accomplish some security and supply chain goals to protect their Ruby pipeline, but completely messed up the execution and did not predict the community interpretation and backlash.