In reply to Matt.

As long as you aren't offended, then an experiment it is. One thing to consider is that 23%+ of the web isn't the target demographic to be using something like this. It is the 1% of WP Developers those that want to build something and are facing limitations, even if it's just the "one size fits all" admin. Instead of having them turn to Laravel, or another framework, why not use WP since they love it, but have it a bit more slim