I still don't think you know what you are talking about. We modified the shit out of wordpress to use it as a makeshit CMS to power a large portion of the mark

I still don't think you know what you are talking about. We modified the shit out of wordpress to use it as a makeshit CMS to power a large portion of the marketing generated content on our site. We even added workflow to it. It wasn't that hard. The codebase for wordpress isn't that messy. It's not ideal, but what OSS project is?