If you're just hosting a blog or simple informational site, there are better options, for sure. ... except that you can just go click a couple buttons, and be

If you're just hosting a blog or simple informational site, there are better options, for sure. ... except that you can just go click a couple buttons, and be ready to start editing your first blog post, right in your browser, with Wordpress, because there are a bunch of easy-to-use hosting solutions. If you're doing much more than that with your site, it can be hard to sell a solution other than Wordpress. The plugin ecosystem and 3rd-party service support is pretty damn good. Consider how few other web platform ecosystems exist that can support individuals and even small teams selling commercial plugins—like, full-time, that's your day job. I think WP's a fucking mess and hate developing for it, but it's hard to advocate for anything else, for a pretty large set of Web use cases.