Went at CheckoutSummit and talked with Woo devs, here's what I learned

\- they are sorry for being so private before

\- they agree they did not do well

\- the new leaders are working towards a more open and community first approach

\- there are multiple new internal projects like:

\- checkout health monitoring

\- new product editor

\- purple theme is being rebooted

\- new wp admin revamp (1y + eta)

\- more speed and flexibility for devs.

They even shown some of the internal works and it looks great!

They also invite everyone to open issues on GitHub or ask on the community slack, as they have streamlined this a lot to be more efficient.

Besides the Woo guys, a lot of very interesting Case Studies about the WP market and it's ecosystem + Shopify competition; also examples and implementations of AI integration with MCP (beyond the current standard).

P.S. networking was much above expectations!