The article began, "It’s true that I had largely been moving away from the WordPress project since at least 2017." Also, the author didn't say that he regretted contributing to WordPress.
Things change, and you move on. If someone got divorced, would you say that's a good lesson to never get married?
An estimated 40% of global websites use Wordpress in some way. It's hard to come up with a more generally applicable set of skills than "Wordpress" at least based on total users worldwide (I'm not here to defend WP, I've never liked it)
That said, I don't think the author's experience with Wordpress has poor transportability into other niches anyway.
Wordpress saga is spicy in itself but really this is also a wake up call for any programmer like me who is overly dependent on a single technology such as dotnet or java. However, what else can we do? There are only so many hours in a day. What reasonable alternative do I have?
Sightly different comparing a cms to an entire programming language. A more apt comparison would be your career being entirely focused on Umbraco or OpenCMS rather than dotnet or java.
Sorry to be an asshole but this is a good lesson on not to over index your life on a single idea.