[ceejayoz]

> There is always something that can be added with a Wordpress plugin and there is somebody who needs that.

They're asserting you can do that stuff yourself now.

> There is a reason why NASA, White House, Techcrunch, Reuters et al are all on Wordpress and any of the 'better' cmses out there.

First, those are large orgs. Most WP sites are not that large or complicated.

Second, would those orgs use WP if they started fresh today? Or something like OP's setup?

[skeeter2020]

You could do this with AI for at least the past decade. We saw lots of companies & frameworks spring up that targeted and did the ahrd work pushing this approach. That feels like the big change, with "using AI" to be an incremental gain here.

[dawnerd]

Those orgs choose WordPress today. Source: that’s our bread and butter doing enterprise WP.

[ceejayoz]

> Those orgs choose WordPress today.

The organizations cited chose WordPress years ago.

Choosing to stay on it is, at least sometimes, going to be a matter of large institutional inertia.

Large enterprises are the last to move on things like this.

[snowwrestler]

The White House website is rebuilt by each administration. So in that case, it was quite a recent decision.

[ceejayoz]

> The White House website is rebuilt by each administration.

The Federal government is very large bureaucratic organization with more inertia than most. (And probably long-term contracts in this realm!)