That could have been deliberately planned by Wardle well in advance. The issue wasn't so much with today's word, as the timing of it looks like it was deliberately placed recently.

PLANT landed on Earth Day as a result of changes made to the word list after Wordle was acquired. You can compare the word lists from before and after the acquisition and see that some words were removed completely, but others were moved to be a solution on a future date.

I’m no conspiracy theorist but I suspect PLANT was deliberate.

He has said it was a randomized list and he played the game two - so wouldn’t know in advance