It just blows my mind that some folks are condescending toward running WP over running a light weight solution with a vastly inferior range of functionality. If

It just blows my mind that some folks are condescending toward running WP over running a light weight solution with a vastly inferior range of functionality. If you want to publish a series of texts with only a minimum of requirements, sure there a dozens of solutions that could do the job. Publishing snippets of text is easy, no big deal. Serious bloggers might like to have a commenting system, a taxonomy system, a widgets system, an rss feed, a user account system, a way to serve their content in more than one way. You know, typical blog stuff. Ghost is not an alternative to WP, nor are any of the other barebones solutions. Doesn't mean they are not awesome in their own right. It's just the comparison with WP has to stop, because it's like comparing an analogue typewriter to a word processor. Both can comfortably print words, but that's where the comparison ends. You can fetishize simple solutions without having to hate on solutions that aren't even remotely similar in design. And there's also this weird logic behind how people should pick their blogging engine. People don't choose WordPress because they aspire to use only what is written in the most fashionable language or coded by the most popular of programming methodologies, or because of some evolved affection for minimal solutions. They pick it because it has a great community and because it is open source, it's easy to use, it's totally free, you have countless people that can help you, it does a lot of stuff and because you can easily extend it in a countless ways.