[puranjay]

If you wanted to know how big of a mess WordPress is, just take a look at all the successful businesses that have been built just to explain how to use WordPress.

The WordPress UI hasn't changed in the 6 years that I've been using it. Everything about it feels "heavy".

Not a good experience, honestly.

Just that the free alternatives (Ghost, for example) are even more technically challenging.

[mikeschinkel]

Having businesses that are built just to explain software is not a sign of failure, it is a sign of success. Microsoft Windows has the same and no one could say that they were not a success for over two decades. It means that WordPress has "crossed the chasm" into the "early majority."