What follows is a tangentially related rant, so feel free to skip it if you don't care about WordPress.
I watched the video[vid] and I was shocked when he got to he WordPress-vs-Rails debate. I'll ignore the fact that both of these are arguably overkill for this and also might have slowed down the development, because the overhead of both is pretty big for such a small project.
Putting that aside though, I'd like to address how WordPress has become abused over the year. People use WordPress for so many things that they shouldn't.
WordPress is great for being a blogging engine, or maybe even a news portal, but its oriented towards textual content, and it excels at that like no other engine out there; its in its name, even—WordPress! However, I've seen so many websites built in WordPress that don't actually use this feature: restaurants, apartment rentals and hotels, web shops, comics[comic], galleries, company websites (with no new/updates/blog section at all, it's literally a static website), etc.
There's a plethora of plugins for it too, which would be good, except people use these plugins to create websites with 0 posts, and everything on the WordPress site is made by that plugin. What is worse, often time these plugins don't work too well to begin with, but that's not even relevant. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a plugin for controlling an alien thermonuclear reactor somewhere in the Andromeda galaxy in Sirius's solar system.
[vid]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DexyfHomC4Q
[comic]: Although, even though comics are mostly graphic contents, they are relatively often updated content, so it isn't as bad as all the other examples I encountered.