There is some serious infrastructure ensuring that that smoke detector is not overwhelmed by the roaring pyroclastic cataclysm that is having lots of Wordpress

There is some serious infrastructure ensuring that that smoke detector is not overwhelmed by the roaring pyroclastic cataclysm that is having lots of Wordpress sites with arbitrarily well-coded PHP running in themes/addons/etc Simplest example off the top of my head: there's an automated system which will kick you emails saying "You're sending MySQL ORDER BY RAND(). Not a great idea. We told MySQL to ignore it. There's a setting you can configure to override this if you're confident you know what you're doing. Site outages caused this year by people flipping that switch: 5."