If the critics spent as much time building and selling what they see as the “better option” to WordPress, perhaps we wouldn’t be in this place. As it is, they j

If the critics spent as much time building and selling what they see as the “better option” to WordPress, perhaps we wouldn’t be in this place. As it is, they just do the easy thing, playing “pigeon chess” by making these hackneyed, unsupported assertions. A better assessment is that WordPress has made trade-offs regarding security, as anybody in the real world must. Individuals must also make their own trade-offs, including whether to run WordPress at all, then how to configure it and which third-party code to use. Sometimes we get the trade-offs wrong, and that should affect how people make future decisions.