So many negative waves!
Wow. Such venom. Would I choose WordPress to build Amazon.com? Of course not. Would I use it for a static ten page site for a Dogwalker company? You bet.
I've hand coded sites, back in pre CSS days, in notepad. And relied happily for years on Dreamweaver in the pre-mobile age, then early WordPress, abandoned it for several years for Joomla and Drupal, only to return to WordPress this year for a small project.
Anyone who claims to be hand-coding contemporary sites today is a liar, or a fool, or has a client who is one.
Joomla, Drupal, and large CMS are fine for people who use them day in and day out, but for anyone else they're ridiculous, over-complex, unintuitive, and break easily.
For someone who just needs something that is small, quick to set up, easy to maintain, looks decent on laptops and mobile devices, and most importantly doesn't require a four week hands-on training course to use, Wordpress is a good choice.
Yes you need to stay on top of security, but that's true of any software.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
