No, Your Site Likely Does Not Need WordPress
THIS morning we said we'd probably exceed 50 new pages/articles in 2 days. Well, this is the 52nd, not even counting about half a dozen original articles in the sister site (so total will be about 60).
Moving away from WordPress was, in retrospect, an overdue blessing. We've become vastly more productive for a slew/plethora of different reasons and we still find time to make videos. A lot of the workflow is hand-crafted and tailored to our needs, not some one-size-fits-all-ware of Automattic, which shapes WordPress to maximise its revenue (or control over users/sites/authors/visitors).
We're encouraged to see more and more reports out there about sites that abandon WordPress, either to roll out their own simple system or adopt an off-the-shelf static site/page generator.
As an ambitious student with spare time I was one of the first users of WordPress and I was a beta tester of WordPress.com (this is all in the public record). I know the co-founder in person (we met for coffee approximately 100 meters from my home 20 years ago). Despite spending a lot of my life promoting and contributing to WordPress I now openly say that it's time to dump WordPress and adopt something leaner. WordPress is bad for users' experience, it is bad for the planet (bloat, an energy consumption factor), and the vast majority of sites don't need "modern" WordPress, they just think they need WordPress or simply got used to it (accustomed to bloatware). █