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WP Engine can't afford to get even a single developer to work on Wordpress. How do you imagine them handling a fork?

WP Engine contributes 40 hours per week according to Matt himself. They should probably contribute more, but 40 hours is a single developer.

This is public on the WordPress.org website:

"can't afford" seems to be at the heart of the issue here, vs. not prioritizing and choosing not to.