Doesn't make it good. But really the worst part is the vast sea of poorly made plugins and themes, other than the concept of 'everything is a post' that puts nearly all of the data into a single database table. You know, instead of a sane system that stores different data types in separate tables and manages the relationships with an ORM.
Ancient cursed technology that powers 43% of all websites (source)
Doesn't make it good. But really the worst part is the vast sea of poorly made plugins and themes, other than the concept of 'everything is a post' that puts nearly all of the data into a single database table. You know, instead of a sane system that stores different data types in separate tables and manages the relationships with an ORM.
Working with their APIs and their plugins' APIs is atrocious.
SAP is also popular, and nobody is actually known on planet Earth to have anything positive to say about it.
I figure their marketing department hires some really good call girls. Only explanation I can fathom.