Mullenweg's troubling politics or the lawsuits against him are far from the main reason people should stop using WordPress. It's only been 2 years since he abused his control over the WordPress plugin infrastructure to wreak havoc among users of hosting providers that he had petty arguments with.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241026031947/http://bullenweg....
It's ironic that this kind of blatant user harm gets brushed off as "political," when many on this forum defending him do so for politics.