As I wrote elsewhere, this is no different from a project deciding to incorporate a third party's functionality into the core. Either way whoever provides the plugin, you trust the provider to provide the core, if you now think they are going to do bad things, there is nothing they can do in the plugin that they couldn't do in the core without all this drama.
It seems the "perceptual framing" that is being engineered about this, that Automattic and its leader should be cancelled, is not about technical issues.
It seems the "perceptual framing" that is being engineered about this, that Automattic and its leader should be cancelled, is not about technical issues.