I think a lot of this whole saga is easier to understand if you just remember that WordPress is a major open source project and a company, so you get to see a lot of the stuff every company --- almost none of whom run major open source projects --- does in the ordinary course of business.
Anyways, if you thought there was any freedom or purity to the tech job market, bad news for you.
> Anyways, if you thought there was any freedom or purity to the tech job market, bad news for you.
Ahh, "everyone else does it" - no, have never been threatened that if I refuse a job offer, or otherwise decline, that my current employer will be told all about how disloyal I was to them.