[bravetraveler]

You've changed my mind on this a bit! I was generally more in the mindset of: "sure, maintain the old copy". Granted, Wordpress isn't the best choice for this. Vulnerabilities abound.

It's funny we still agree, coming from different approaches :) To your point, it doesn't make much sense to fork and actually maintain the code. I more meant the installation/deployment. I'm not that afraid with things like SELinux policies and network boundaries in place.

One could learn the new thing, find something more suitable, or run the old thing until the wheels fall off. We're spoiled for choice!

Creating more fragmentation/choice extends the challenge. We see this with Linux distributions. Outside of like four root distributions, we have N derivatives re-packaging for slightly different themes and configs.

Given enough time and caffeine I could replace the entire ISO ecosystem with YML and Linux from Scratch... but I use something more traditional because I value my time/effort.