And why? WP is open source, anyone can do anything with it. There are 100s of thousands of people that know how to code for it, plugins for everything, etc. I have never once understood the anti WP take some have.
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This! I know there are newer ways to do things than PHP, but for the average person who wants more flexibility and control I don't know of anything better.
If you want easy and don't care about open-source just get a shopify store or an Etsy.
I may be a bit jaded from logging into WP sites of others. They are a complete disaster.
Most instances of WP aren't maintained well and have security issues. Auto updating handles some of this.
I also find WP clunky and slow.
Are there better alternatives for general public usage? I'm not sure. I'm not saying don't use WP, I just realize the faults and areas where improvements can be made.
There are some interesting projects that may be a replacement such as sanity.io.
I just haven't found anything yet that can do what WordPress does.
For example (and definitely not even the best exapll, I'm mediocre at best with web stuff) RenegadeButcher.com
Show me another place where I can have full on e-commerce, lightning login, payment via fiat AND bitcoin/lightning plus Cashapp and a miriad of other methods 56000 extensions available and 31000 themes while also being open-source and all extensions being able to be fully edited at the code level from within the backend?