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Going to go out on a limb here and say that a sales pitch doesn't address parent's comment...but it does seem to be implicitly acknowledge that Wordpress is too

• scarecrowbob 3y ago
  As appealing as it is to think that if we just have more rigorous processes and infrastructure a crappy system will become more stable, it misses the point I was making. We do have our sites on functional WP stacks. With enough caching, it's not super hard to make things work (until you hit some edge case with a custom theme/plugin that didn't anticipate a supposedly non-breaking change in the core). Unfortunately, figuring out why the calendar plugin suddenly isn't producing a functional ical output for windows PCs or figuring out why the s3 offloading plugin has started timing out intermittently becomes a large time investment. So it's kind of fun to suggest that the people who have the pleasure of servicing WP at a high level are just holding it wrong, but the reality is that there are a lot of talented and experienced people out here working on a platform that fundamentally sucks to work on. It's not logically inconsistent that, on one hand, people chose it because it's an easy-to-implement solution whose benefit massively outweighs its TCO and, on the other hand, when it break or requires extension it's a pain in the ass for those of us charged with doing that work.