That's because it's not corpospeak, it's Mattospeak.
Also I realized "Matt" is front and center in Automattic so that says a lot
It sounds like you haven't been aware at all about WordPress and suddenly looked up some numbers and imposed traditional company expectations on an open source project with a commercial arm.
WordPress is a fork of b2/cafelog [1], and arguably wouldn't be where it is today without the initial open source community behind it.
[1] https://wordpress.org/book/2015/11/the-blogging-software-dil...