This seems like a bit of an angry response. I write a lot of Wordpress and php code and help manage one of the most sold themes on theme forest. Php really was,

This seems like a bit of an angry response. I write a lot of Wordpress and php code and help manage one of the most sold themes on theme forest. Php really was, in my opinion, a hell hole of a failed language until 6ish. The patterns people used as standard practice were 5-10 years out of date either due to the slow progress of WP or the php language and ecosystem. A lot of the flack PHP and Wordpress has gotten is totally deserved. Yeah it can just work, but at what cost? Maintenance and upgrading is terrible. Security vulnerabilities galore. You seem involved in WP but just work is a load of bullshit. Everytime we push an update people migrating are walking through a minefield: CSS overlaps, JS import overlaps, php bugs from other plugins. Going back, we can’t even use features from modern PHP because most of our users php versions aren’t well up to date. Wordpress itself has done a terrible job halfbaking different systems as part of WP core. Gutenberg, imo, is just another abject failure that will take 5 years and provide a buggy solution. You are spot on with the compatibility argument which also has lots of pros and cons obviously. Also for most js websites built at a certain time things weren’t using npm and bundles and you can simply link the js src like it’s 1999. Just save the source code and you never have to update. I know this is a trope here but every job has the right tool. WP and php are great tools, especially PHP right now, it has literally never been better. WP on the other hand is just totally confused with Gutenberg and it’s clear Automatic has no idea what they’re doing and who their audience is.