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> PS: They also swapped WP's Stripe ID for the WooCommerce plugin for their own.

I assume you can supply actual proof for this, right? Let's see if you have better luck than the last guy who went looking, because he came up with bupkis.

Also not clear to me that Woocommerce disclosed they get a commission from Stripe. That seems like a massive FTC violation.

If Matt tells you what I just told you, will you believe Matt? Here it is on his website, wordpress.org:

https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/pledge/wp-engine/

This is just marketing speak and wasn't written by Matt.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"WP Engine sponsors 11 contributors for a total of 40 hours per week across 5 teams."

Doesn't sound like a lot given the money they make. Biblical ROI.

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