The WP Alternative Project

That’s fine to explicitly express the feelings, that’s just my choice to avoid the specific feelings and not spread it around, mostly highlighting I’m not a fan of WP. But we should carefully listen to them if we want to change something.

I always considered WP popularity was coming from possibility to build solutions fast. Not of the highest quality, possibly raising problems in the future, but pretty straightforward.

No reason a new architecture couldn't be adopted while leaving the general user experience the same for the end-users.

Dependency Injection is certainly a good alternative to the existing hooks system or even the PSR strategy.

Yes. This is a really good one. I've investigated this before, but was right in the middle of learning Vue and deep into a project, so I forgot all about it!

It seems WordPress owning the plugin distribution channel took an advantage of some plugin authors and replaced "Advanced Custom Fields" with own implementation ("fork"). Incident raises many questions and causes many issue, and the worst are people ruined days when such in-place, silent replaces are causing downtimes or partial malfunction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830709