More enjoyable to develop for, IMO, but otherwise the comparison holds.
I would add that other PHP-based projects have had severe maintainability crises, poorer clarity of design, even worse code quality crises (Joomla, for example), major fallings-out and multiple forks (Joomla again).
WordPress got this far in part because it managed inevitable community fallings-out and egos much better. It's totally depressing to see what is happening.
The issue is how WordPress seems to be stuck in the ways of the mid-2000's. You can be a "senior full stack" developer in the WordPress ecosystem but you'll hit a wall once you start applying for more general PHP roles as everything from the standard coding style to how classes and namespaces are used are worlds apart.
I once taught someone to make this jump, who was convinced he would never be able to. It is definitely a mindset change but I think a good developer can do it. Especially since these days, class and namespace stuff and Composer dependencies are increasingly common in plugin development.
I love Laravel (especially with Lighthouse) but I think the hooks/actions model in WordPress is underrated in its simplicity and appropriateness for the task.
(I am not a fan of the standard WP coding style, TBH)
I do worry about the thousands of people out there that have no other marketable skill than WordPress and are not going to climb out.