The idea was cool, but WMF is doing too much, just like Mozilla. They should focus on their core offering.

I don’t think this is a bad move, they might even want to divest from their other side projects too. They are mostly distractions and money sinks.

Ah, it is/was a volunteer community, so not really a thing the WMF needs to put much effort in besides running the server. I bet even I could take over the job if I really wanted to, and not because I'm amazing or anything. Well at least, if this were 2010 or so. By now scraper mitigation might be a challenge. <scratches head>