On one side is a big corporation that doesn’t give back very much to the open source community on which it profits. On the other side is an executive who will do everything in his power end the aforementioned abuse, including his nonprofit directing money into his for-profit, and even destroying the entire software ecosystem and individual developer’s livelihoods.

Consensus seems to be that the Matt/Automattic is worse than WP Engine, if only through stupidity and hubris.