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Because moving an existing site to another platform is non-trivial. Sure I could figure out how to move over my theme, hundreds of posts, my menus, sidebars, hundreds of images, and all of my registered users.

Or I could just stick with the existing good enough system and go do something else.

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Sure, you need to support legacy software that is so junky you have no way to migrate off the platform. You're trapped in the dump. Even more reason to avoid WordPress and not get trapped in your situation.

You're complaining about lock-in, yet recommend hosted site-builders?

That is one disadvantage. If you bothered to read the rest of my comments you would see that I said it depends on your use case. If you just need a basic website you are much better off using a site builder than wasting quite possibly 1000s of dollars on support when something breaks. Be honest. So many non profits with limited budgets have wasted so much money that should have been spent on the actual purpose. All because of the lies they have been told by shady agencies who want the sweet sweet support contracts that junk like WordPress requires.

So many ignorant statements in this comment.

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