I often criticize the wordpress ecosystem and mention the above as one of the reasons. Even recently a buddy of mine whined about the performance of his wp page

I often criticize the wordpress ecosystem and mention the above as one of the reasons. Even recently a buddy of mine whined about the performance of his wp page, I've took a look at it and damn... the firebug network chart was one of the crappiest I've seen in my life. Literally dozens of request for images and css files, huge part of which raised 404, about 3 versions of jquery loaded locally thanks to plugins, and so on. What a mess. Always some enthusiasts argue me, while some others say the mentioned 'oh, just cache it'. Some time ago there was also the post about the first page of google results on 'wordpress free themes' proving that most of it had malware. People (mainly amateurs) should understand that while wordpress (love it or hate it, there are lots of reasons) is legit, the whole ecosystem of themes and plugins is by many means occupied by amateurs who can set up a php website and some html but don't know crap about performance and/or security, and also spammers and other devs with malicious intentions. Use wp, but be aware of that and be careful what you're doing when installing third-party extensions.