"the general public who lack those skills will still eventually lose access to the original independent Wordle."

The original one, yes.

Paul Lutus[1] has made "Word Game" an open source Wordle clone on his website: https://arachnoid.com/wordgame/

Mobile friendly view: https://arachnoid.com/wordgame/mobile-display.html ; Announcement thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/wordle/comments/s69nma/word_game/ .

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lutusp