> Absolutely. Anki’s core code will remain open source, guided by the same principles that have guided the project from the beginning.

Already caveating with the "core" code. Even without PE and VC, it's clear that a company with 35 employees is bound to take this in a different direction than 1 guy, and not a good one. If there comes a day where those 35 employees can't be sustained anymore by revenue, and the choice is between enshittification and shutting down/firing everyone, we'll see what happens. That's the big difference - such a decision was never on the cards, or at least much less likely, when run by a single person. Now it will be.

Big conflict of interests too. AnkiHub makes money from selling paid addons. No chance any of those will ever end up in Anki now.

Also not a good look that they immediately locked the thread in their most popular community.