Once, maybe twice every year you have this blog post of how WordPress will improve, will be rewritten to a modern foundation, will reinvent blogging plastered w

Once, maybe twice every year you have this blog post of how WordPress will improve, will be rewritten to a modern foundation, will reinvent blogging plastered with the sympathetic "WordPress gets the job done but the foundation is horrible". Fast-forward a few months and WordPress releases a new version, the project to rewrite WordPress didn't gather enough momentum and there you are, slapping in another function_exists in your module and thinking "man, why did nobody ever improve this horrible house of cards?".