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$5 says there's a hard fork led by all the commercial providers and anyone else who has a business that depends on Wordpress, and that it happens fairly soon.
It's GPLed, so while you can't call your fork Wordpress, you can just rename it and carry on with everything as it was, except you're no longer involved in dealing with crazy.
I'm not sure the average customer of any of those businesses knows or cares about the name of the software that their site runs, and won't give a single crap about it not being Wordpress but some other name while otherwise staying exactly the same - or, maybe, without an opinionated obstructionist sitting in front of the code approval path, perhaps even better.
I'd laugh my ass off if WP Engine would lead a hard fork called WP Core. If any WP Engine folks read this, feel free to use the name, I won't sue, I promise.
That's a much better name than something I was thinking.
I just made the assumption they'd do the standard open source thing and call it Libre-something.
I'd pay actual money to see the meltdown Matt would have if it was forked and called WP Core.
To be fair, Matt is providing meltdowns regularly and totally free of charge. 😂