The correct information is that your employer created the security problem as part of their shakedown attempt. They then banned the WP Engine developers from Wordpress so that they couldn't update the plugin. Now they've forked the plugin, removed the commercial upgrade, and renamed it.
I'm not sure where values come into it. I'd be ashamed to work there.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair (probably, may be apocryphal)
For sure dude, the guy who came here to defend the values of his own and his megalomaniac employer on a weekend evening is probably much too busy to name one. That tracks.
No one has told me to come here and defend anyone. I work at a part of Automattic that is isolated from anything WordPress — I don’t have to be here.
I am defending values I believe in. I am trying to make sure correct information is out there.
You are free to not believe that of course.