Not a "WordPress is dead" post. It served me well for a long time. My sites are small, mostly for reading, and updated once or twice a month, and at some point WP became more babysitting than publishing for them.

What pushed me was a shared server that kept going down. What had been nagging me for longer was the steady drip of Wordfence emails about login attempts, and updating plugins by hand after automatic updates burned me once. I moved everything to pre-built static pages on Cloudflare.

What I don't miss: plugin update anxiety, and fighting the theme with !important.

What I do miss, or at least respect more now: the plugin ecosystem. Someone else builds, maintains and patches every feature for you. Without it, every dynamic thing I add (comments, forms) is code I own. And the owners of the smaller sites I moved can't edit them themselves anymore, so I'm effectively their CMS now.

For a shop, memberships or a team of editors who don't use git, I'd still pick WordPress. Curious where others here draw that line.

Longer write-up, including the trade-offs: https://diego.horse/cloudflare-built-emdash-i-built-neighdash/