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Basically my experience of it, I've never seen an open source project so hostile to open source.

A huge amount of features that should be in core are locked behind the proprietary "jetpack" SAAS.

The plugins repository is a hive of scum and freemium, with no way to search for only GPL compliant plugins.

Huh, all plugins in the plugin repository are GPL compliant. If you can find one that isn't, please notify the plugin team, they will deal with it.

What you might mean is that there are GPL plugins that you can use with a third party service that you have to pay for. And yes, that is a grey middleground that is allowed at wordpress.org.

I wonder if 'hostile' is the right word, but I certainly agree that very functional things felt oddly missing. It is definitely super subjective as to what's 'very functional' and part of a basic package, but I'd definitely prefer an entry level cost and then have a more expanded base version of Wordpress.

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