I don't use WP Engine or WordPress, so I don't have a side in this fight.

As an outsider, that context seems a bit dubious to me.

@photomatt has tweeted [5135]: "[...] Please let me know if any employee faces firing or retaliation for speaking up about their company's participation (or lack thereof) in WordPress. We'll make sure it's a big public deal and that you get support. [...]"

If this was true, I would think that @photomatt's twitter feed would be loudly boosting this disgruntled employee's story of WP Engine-imposed limits and subsequent retaliation. Yet @photomatt's twitter feeds seems silent to me. This makes me skeptical of this context.

[5135]: https://x.com/photomatt/status/1836862087320195174

That, and the whole thing about Matt M going on a scathing rant about how bad WPEngine supposedly is[0], supposedly because they don't support WP page revision control as well as he'd like. Seems a bit over-the-top and breathless to me.

I figure the whole thing is a corporate whine-fest over who makes more money from actually hosting Wordpress sites.

[0] https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine/

Seems unlikely though? Matt wrote a post on the web, ie he had unlimited length available to him. If the dispute is over employee contributions, then he should have made that the focus of his complaint.