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And that's a developer experience. WordPress is also popular because of the customer experience. The customer experience with WordPress is far less intimidating

And that's a developer experience. WordPress is also popular because of the customer experience. The customer experience with WordPress is far less intimidating than that of a headless CMS. "I log in here, I edit pages here, and there are the pictures I uploaded". Those people are the ones who provide a market for paid plugins, themes, and make up the bulk of the WordPress administration community. As devs, if we ignore that and push people towards solutions that are significantly harder in our customers minds to manage, we lose them as customers and the space as a whole suffers. As a bone of contentions "it's outdated php language" is nothing but personally biased nonsense. I say that as a non php developer with no dog in this fight.

Tijdreiziger 4y ago
> As a bone of contentions "it's outdated php language" is nothing but personally biased nonsense. I say that as a non php developer with no dog in this fight. As I understand it (disclaimer: not a WP dev), the thing with WordPress is that they have a goal to never break backwards compatibility. This is good for their users, given that (as you say) most of them aren’t developers. However, it also means they’re stuck with design decisions they made ten or twenty years ago.
- taskforcegemini 4y ago
  and it is therefore much easier to maintain. updating wordpress itself can and will cause issues as well, but it is usually plugins and themes that lack behind and break the site on updates.