Comment by dofm
1 hour ago
> but I also do think that forking ACF into SCF was a net positive for the community.
I think you can make the case that in principle this fork was a good idea. (Though I personally feel ACF is architecturally bad)
What I think is unarguable is that the way that fork happened, including the commandeering of the slug to pervert the auto-update mechanism, was both improper and self-destructive, and was pretty indicative of the impairment of Matt’s decisionmaking and seriousness.
I agree, introducing it into the core should have and could have been a constructive move way before given how important the plugin is in the WP ecosystem.
When and how it happened was a hilarious plot twist nobody expected.