I applaud brave move to base this on (the slightly terrifying) Wordpress because you seem to have made an "eyes-open" trade off between best and fastest implementation.
Hey! I'm Bryce (the author of the post / product). As I touched on in my post, I'm a fan of using the tools you already know. The end goal was clear - to build a product that solved my problem. For me, I was looking for the fastest and most efficient route to get to that solution.