Tongue in cheek, but genuinely as well, it is probably the most attacked CMS platform on the internet. That not every WP site is taken down by the automated attacks they all get means they must be doing something right.
Anyone would be lucky as fuck to have the success and influence of Wordpress and yet we have clueless folk who speak of it as a cautionary tale.
overall i find it balanced. certain topics will draw certain vocal crowd more and then it will look unbalanced.
on the other hand it's really funny to see "modern development practices and patterns" mentioned in a topic about WP.
are you sir one of them expert technologists from tok tik?
i agree that WP is a cautionary tale but one thing they got really well: never do a rewrite from scratch while being the top dog. it must have been hard to resist that siren song and now we'll have WP till the heat death of the universe.
WordPress is the Windows of content management systems.
They both are widely used, have an outdated architecture, are keeping compatibility above all, therefore don't innovate, are very extendable, can run almost anything, and are the go-to for many people.
It's up to you to decide, if these are good things or bad things.
Except CL squandered the opportunity to rebalance the power dynamic between landlords and renters.
Then, its continued reluctance in many fronts fragmented local P2P into a dozen marketplaces, greatly impacting its own marketplaces’ liquidity.
At this point I think Wordpress is doing more to sort itself out than CL.