In reply to Robert.

It depends what you need. Ease of dev - others are fine. I played with Perch Runway last night and it as well as Craft are both good. Neither has the ecosystem of WP but they have the basic stuff covered and frankly an influx of new people will only build that out. Plus, well, the WP plugin ecosystem is a mess - 50k plugins, but many are old, abandoned or duplicates of others in features.

There's going to be a learning curve and some adaptation if I move... but if I land a $5-15k project can I really use WP with the uncertainty around the editing experience and what it will and will not break? A project that size needs to be good for 2-5 years... I can't go back to someone like that in a year and tell them I need thousands more to make the site work with 5.x or to move to another CMS.

While I wish the core team would get that, ultimately I'll do what's right for myself and my clients. If that's WP, great. If it's not, well, it's been a nice ride.