This is the Achilles heel of Wordpress. WP is now getting a a TON of competition from static site generators, and companies like Netlify. Headless CMS' and Jam

This is the Achilles heel of Wordpress. WP is now getting a a TON of competition from static site generators, and companies like Netlify. Headless CMS' and Jamstack are the future for these types of sites and people are coming off of Drupal and Wordpress in huge numbers. As their numbers have shrunk, they've had to make drastic changes. I haven't been seriously involved in the WP community for about five years, but I've heard rumblings within the community about moving to a modern stack that includes ReactJS or VueJS for a while now. At the very least they're trying to maintain their position and modernize WP to appease some of the critics and vocal members of their community.