[warpspin]

The criticism is a bit over the top. I had to do some paid work on Magento extensions for a pre-existing customer installation for a while, and while it was a slow, bloated system unusable without throwing in a whole lot of extra cache systems, which also had its share of internationalization issues back then in v1, it was comparatively easy to find my way around the source even without being an actual PHP programmer or prior knowledge of Magento.

(Disclaimer: This was Magento 1. Haven't looked at Magento 2)

Still wouldn't recommend it for actually setting up a shop, though.

[allanmacgregor]

Magento 1 and Magento 2 are not the same piece of software Magento2 was rewritten (twice) and to say is over engineered is putting it mildly, e.g. let's roll out our own dependecy injection.