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I feel like comparing Wordpress to React/Vue is strange. Do people build web apps using Wordpress these days? I know you can make Wordpress do more via extensions (site builder, e-commerce), but it seems weird creating something original with Wordpress to me, but I genuinely don't know what Wordpress is capable of these days. In the sense of what Wordpress was made for and the extensions available for it, it checks out to me that it would dominate the web landscape.

As far as not blindly following the advice of web advocates, I agree - they live on the bleeding edge. Unfortunately these are the people the new and impressionable devs come across on social media and hold their words like gospel because look how many followers they have and look at who they worked for, they must be right! Web tech moves fast, especially the shiny frontend stuff, and that generates discussion and leads people to believe that everything else is obsolete when in reality it's not.