I wrote a plugin, it wasn't the world's greatest plugin but it worked, someone even wrote me asking if it worked with WordPress 3.2.1 so I upgrade my personal blog, make sure the plugin is working fine and low and behold I now can't find my plugin in the plugin directory.
Why would it be removed? It functioned. It was minimal.
As is apparent from the link, my biggest ongoing problem with WordPress is the conditionals don't return the expected results. I don't know how many editions this has been ongoing on my website for, but I'm just not inspired to upgrade to the latest supposedly greatest WordPress anymore as it broke the conditionals in my sidebar a while back and now the plugin I wrote has disappeared.
Lately I've been using WordPress.com as it isn't worth the hassle of setting up web hosting for little hobby projects. I've been using WordPress since 2005, why am I so alienated by a product and codebase I put so much effort into using and promoting.
Ditto for upgrading plugins. I use less and less of them because they generally break something if not each other, I upgraded six of them and I'm not even sure I'm using the related post one anymore, it conflicts with Disqus or Simple Tags. My plugin was truly simple, it didn't conflict with anything and when I upgrade WordPress it kept on ticking, but no one can use it as it was removed from the plugin directory...
Whatever... unlikely to write any more WordPress plugins or tutorials.