The other cohort of people who hate Wordpress are marketing/content people who've had the pleasure of using an install that lacks full-time developer maintenanc

The other cohort of people who hate Wordpress are marketing/content people who've had the pleasure of using an install that lacks full-time developer maintenance for long enough for it to break, and being "stuck" with that breakage (or, worse, wading into the freelance market trying to find someone to fix it without a scratch rewrite).