At its core, Wordpress is not bad software, it’s just old and shows it’s age sometimes. I’ve worked with a lot of really talented engineers who built their careers on Wordpress. News organizations powering the top breaking stories online run on WP. It’s a competent, mature, and extensible platform for developers, even if the modern marketing is not catered to devs.

These days I’ve moved to Laravel but all of my friends in WP world are bummed that their livelihoods are being toyed with by the former BDFL now just DFL.