The saddest aspect of this situation is that I believe Mullenweg truly wants more people to participate in and benefit from open source software.

But by dragging thousands of developers into a pissing match and unilaterally breaking the update process for 1.5M sites without warning, he’s making the case that WordPress is unstable.

Leadership matters. I hope WordPress gets the chance to find new leaders before it dies a slow death. The web needs WordPress to be great and right now it isn’t.