I thought i was alone. I have no idea what this blog post is complaining about

I don't get it either. I clicked their link to the other person's complaint, too - I still do not understand.

Almost every product I build pre-populates user avatars from Gravatar as the optional first personalization hook. It's a nice feature.

Also fuck this bit:

> I know a lot of people also think that Matt Mullenweg's recent statements about WordPress, open source, and other companies have been problematic.

Matt's company did 99% of the work on WordPress and newcomer WP Engine came in and took everything without contributing any code back. They also gobbled up 50% of the market share. The license means WP Engine can do that, but it doesn't make what WP Engine did ethical. Fuck WP Engine and people that do shit like that. Makes me hate OSI purism. It's not unlike what AWS and GCP do to starve Redis, Elastic, etc. of their revenue streams, meanwhile their entire platforms are closed source.