There’s a particular kind of dread that comes from watching a tool you actually trust start to show cracks. Not a dramatic collapse, just a quiet shifting of furniture. A page quietly updated. A couple of long-serving executives out the door. A new CEO whose LinkedIn profile prominently features “mergers and acquisitions” and experience with private equity firms.

That’s where Bitwarden is right now.

If you’re not across it: Bitwarden is a password manager with a genuinely good reputation. Open source, reasonably priced, a free tier that wasn’t insulting, and a self-hosted option that let the more technically minded run their own server. That last part spawned Vaultwarden, a community-built alternative server implementation that made self-hosting dramatically easier. The whole setup was, frankly, a model for how this stuff could work.