Yes, your comment is spot-on. Most programmers will view WordPress with scorn because they see it as a bloated mess, comparable to seeing Word as a bloated mess

Yes, your comment is spot-on. Most programmers will view WordPress with scorn because they see it as a bloated mess, comparable to seeing Word as a bloated mess compared to TeX, Markdown et al. But most of them don't believe - or worse actively deny - that Word's "bloatedness" is simply a consequence that some might use it as a simple document writer, some as a templated document (for use in receipt printing for example), and some will use it for things that I haven't even heard of. Actually, dmje, the grand-grandparent of the comment, has said it succinctly: HN seems often incapable of thinking about how audiences and use cases differ.