Huh. This really took a turn.

"We have been made aware that the Advanced Custom Fields plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress dot org.

A plugin under active development has never been unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent in the 21 year history of WordPress."

https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/

via https://x.com/wp_acf/status/1845169499064107049