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I have not heard of anyone being turned off from using WordPress from this. That does not mean it does/has not happened, I am sure some folks got mad.

It is a stupid hissyfit and some bad judgments. People make mistakes.

There are far better purely technical / code issues to turn people away from WordPress, but WordPress is spectacularly popular.

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Uhh. I am. I've launched probably 30 websites using WP over the last 10 years, a couple for household name brands. WordPress stopped being "cool" awhile ago (because "PHP sucks" and the like), I've defended my usage of it in plenty of past comments, despite it being long past "cool". The way MM talks about enforcing the trademark, the licensing distinction (i.e. the commercial use of "WordPress" to Automattic only) -- am I allowed to call myself a "WordPress" developer and charge people money for it anymore? Or do I have to worry about a trademark troll?

I'll admit that I'd already been looking for a modern alternative. I'm a web developer, I almost exclusively write in TypeScript, something running on Node just makes more sense for me. I recently built a project on PayloadCMS and NextJS -- Payload has since integrated directly into Next's server and has a really nice "website" template to get started. I'll be using that from now on.

Up can run WordPress just fine headless. Not my own cup of coffee but it works

I think the data schema in Wordpress is decent. With the addition of Pods it has become a lot more flexible. (There were other solutions that mostly cost $$)

Most of my issues with WP has to do with the front end.

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