Having met Wayne during KiCon a couple of days ago, I’m very happy with the announcement and the increased involvement. Large projects benefit from a full-time maintainer, especially an experienced and reasonable one.
As for commercial use of KiCad, I talked to Wayne specifically about that, and tried to provide a different perspective on some things, as it is not always clear to developers how commercial users view and approach software (if you develop and use something every day, you are very different from a company where engineers come and go, and someone might try to open a project after a year). I’d encourage others in a commercial setting to do the same. And as for Digi-Key’s involvement, I think @Digi-man’s post explains it well, I’ll just add that I only got a very positive vibe from everything that is going on.
In general, I’d say the project is maturing and growing, the community is impressive, and I really like where this is all heading!