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Yeah the most confusing thing to me is how the hell code that bad ever got so big.

It’s literally my go-to example of why the MVC design pattern is so good for web development. There is basically no view/controller separation - you can change core behavior of the backend in a template.

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Simple: Programmers think code quality matters.

In the real world, nobody gives a darn about your code quality. Zero interest. It just needs to work, keep working, and that’s it.

I assure you probably >90% of code in deployment right now doesn’t even have CI/CD.

WordPress has always had a phenomenal admin editing experience relative to what else existed. That on top of a dogmatic adherence to backwards compatibility made the free (and paid) theme/plugin ecosystem thrive.

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