Software devs dont let friends use Wordpress.
(I kid of course but would never touch it myself for the obvious problems it has)
(I kid of course but would never touch it myself for the obvious problems it has)
However from a personal level the main two ones for me are the poor quality of its codebase and the lack of care or common sense around the official plugin repository, bordering on outright incompetence on their part for allowing unvetted and highly dangerous plugins to stay on the official repo.
Honestly as a developer for going on 20 years in a professional capacity I physically recoil at the absolute awfulnes of the codebase.
But it still works fine for my blogs, and I've not had any issues. I also know a lot of folks that use it for sites.
What are the alternatives?
Remember that most of the folks I work with are far, far from tech wizards.