Wordpress.com Is Not WordPress

Going back to the initial cause of this, Matt decries a competitor for not giving back. Yet Matt is doing the very same.

Two years ago, WordPress plugin creators lost access to their stats for downloads from wordpress.org [1]. Despite the pleas and the spurious reasons stats remain hidden. Matt, the CEO of Automattic, can see them though.

Surely Matt would want to give back to the people who made WordPress what it is?

[1] https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/6511