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"an ease to writing that makes it pleasant to compose text formatted for the web...Compared to WordPress’s bulky editor and aging PHP code base, the difference is striking."

I don't know anything about WordPress's bulky editor, but how does the code base have any relevance to front end usability?

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Was thinking the same. I can see what they might be getting at if you compare Wordpress + mods vs clean Ghost. I doubt once considered fully featured that Ghost would be so much more efficient as to make it a key point of differentiation, for the average small blogger anyway.

And when did £5,000 (maybe plus) become Microsoft throwing its weight behind something?

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