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I left Wordpress development in 2014 (I think?), and it's true that I always found it to be an abomination; but naturally so given it's a project with a long history.

That said: PHP isn't Wordpress. Honestly, look at a modern Symfony codebase. You'll find monads, functional programming, etc, at least that was my experience at the last PHP shop (in 2020).

You know PHP is based of C. Would you say C/C++ is theme code?

Wordpress is not a good representation of modern PHP.

>"theme" code

What do you you mean by 'theme' code?

Worpress themes were just PHP themselves and people used to smuggle all things of stuff in there.