Wordpress is past its prime, has always been a wrapper over a hideous dogshit codebase, has bad leadership, is in a crisis, and will slowly disappear.
It’s natural, and not a big deal. Wordpress pushed out other options, and now they too will fall. Something else will come along.
The article is spot on.
Spot on in observing this, everything else is not so tangible.
It does not really go into what the future of the web will look like, except maybe even more shifting to hosted walled gardens, but that's not exactly breaking news.
Wordpress is past its prime, has always been a wrapper over a hideous dogshit codebase, has bad leadership, is in a crisis, and will slowly disappear.
It’s natural, and not a big deal. Wordpress pushed out other options, and now they too will fall. Something else will come along.
The article is spot on.