I think this critique was traditionally about the LAMP stack. Imagine how many engineering years would have been saved if Wordpress ran on SQLite, - no db user

I think this critique was traditionally about the LAMP stack. Imagine how many engineering years would have been saved if Wordpress ran on SQLite, - no db user configuration - no installing multiple tenants in the same db - no phpmyadmin (ftp db files) - no remote database hacks - no backup tools