Surely you mean wordpress.com.
Also, millions of people host WordPress themselves and it works fine considering how much value it delivers.
Also, millions of people host WordPress themselves and it works fine considering how much value it delivers.
The moment marketing wants to be able to login to make dynamic updates and load the instance up with plugins it's time to outsource the hosting. My team already has too much going on to spend time on this foolishness.
This got especially worse with 5.x since you can't 403 the REST API off the corporate network anymore (aka the REST API that shipped vulnerable on day 1). It's used for customer facing 'stuff' now.