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As Matt Mullenweg continues to destroy WordPress in his pointless fight against WP Engine, it only pushes people more to proprietary solutions, making the web less open.

With normal users seeing this drama, and people companies are looking for other solutions, often proprietary solutions like SquareSpace, Wix, Shopify, etc and not things like Hugo, Jekyll, and the likes, which takes more effort and technical knowledge to set up. Ghost is not easy to set up since it doesn’t use PHP, and most shared hosts don’t support node, you need to use a VPS for that, which requires technical knowledge. Also, Markdown is not really a replacement for WYSIWYG.

Users just want something easy to use and just create content. WordPress is like that, especially with plugins like Elementor (Gutenberg is never that great, only good at some, but not post creation). The other solutions are just too hard, requires a terminal, or needing a desktop computer to run the software (like with Rapidweaver or Sparkle, which are website builder apps on Mac).

This shift to proprietary solutions is bad as they are giving ownership of the user’s data to these companies, which can enshittify their services, keeping your website or your hard work hold hostage.

While most people are not paying attention to WordPress drama, you should since WordPress controls like 40% of the internet. Matt’s actions are affecting that 40%, which can negatively effect it or change it for the worse, unless he gets kicked out of leadership or everyone in the community switches to a hard fork.

Or maybe, we should just go back to creating websites in DreamWeaver or something.