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Doesn't have a place for who, developers? Maybe. But your average company or person needing a blog has no idea what to do with, or what even is a static site generator. Most people do know of WordPress however, and how easy it is to use.

If you're only making websites for other developers then what you say makes total sense. But I'm afraid that's not the audience WordPress is meant for.

Nah, it's powering 40%+ of the whole web already, and for a good reason.

I agree with blog and website generator. But CMS like Keystone or Payload would probably not run on cheap shared hosting. There are for example small non-profit organizations that are not going to use VPS.