hmmm "Automattic isn't WordPress" at this point is something that requires "citation is needed". There is no need for conspiracy theories any more, they were actually proved to be correct based on actual behaviour of automattic, even if you ignore the white lie with which wordpress.com promote itself, pretending to host 30+% of the sites on the internet
At this point, even if you are being very forgiving to how wordpress.com promotes itself, there is very little overlap between the UX of wordpress.org and wordpress.com, therefor it is a totally irrelevant claim, but obviously wordpress.org has no wish to act against such a problematic claims