But I've been writing web software for 30 years and WordPress is among the worst mainstream applications. It's worse than its PHP competitors at the time, and it's worse than Ghost and many of the competitors that came after it.
You can't just dismiss all criticism of the past because it was the past. Some people wrote worse software than others in the past, just as they do today.
Personally I’m think a big issue is the insistence of wanting to keep everything as backwards compatible for as long as possible. It becomes a burden. At some point you have to accept to make substantial changes in order to improve the situation but it’s not going to happen in the WP ecosystem because that’s one of their selling points.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) gives parents control over what information websites can collect from their kids. [https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/privacy-security/child...]. It requires explicit consent from the parents by entering a credit card as a form of ID or a video chat where the web platform confirms the adult is the parent or guardian
Should a persons worldview dictate whether or not they perform a service? For example making a wedding cake for a same sex marriage? Perhaps this more nuanced.
I bought Dell business laptops from Amazon and they lasted less than a year. Motherboards died. I assumed the seller was dumping them. He probably knew better and could get a buck off them.
The Gmail domain will deliver email to an email address regardless of periods in the username. My email address is first name period middle initial period last name. I can a period between any letter, all letters or none and I can still receive it.
Perhaps the size of the company could dictate the size and scope of work. With a small company, one person would bear responsibility for everything. Whereas within a larger corporation, the responsibility is spread amongst a cohort of people who then can focus on a subset of skills.
