[eonw]

its strange to me that a place full of developers and this is a question? is installing, managing and securing a basic wordpress site really that much of a hassle or headache, or even a stretch of basic web dev skills? If you cant stand up, install and manage wordpress, at the very least, maybe you are on the wrong forum?

you have to watch for security updates and changes for almost every other thing you use in your work life(from OS to JS libs), why not just add wordpress and the few plugins you use to that list?