ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org

While all of this is very bad, I still dislike the post. „Since 2011“, for example. The plugin was sold two times in the last two years and ended up in the hands of WPEngine in the end. Since then, it has been a bumpy road with ACF, even before this (hugely unsettling!) incident.

I don't know what you mean by "bumpy road". ACF has been solid for years, and has received excellent care and updates since moving to Delicious Brains and then WP Engine.

There's been nothing "bumpy" about ACF. It has been solidly supported, developed and documented for years.

My opinion as well as many as my peers is that ACF could have been rolled into core or bought by Matt long long before it was acquired by WPE, which most of us found as a good thing, being that its a critical plugin and gained long term support.

Plugins have bumps, that's part of the growth, and some of the changes ACF have made as of recent years, even the ones I disagree with, seem well intentioned and not malicious. I can't say the same for what is happening right now.