All of these comments boil down to one thing: Who is the target public for the evolving WordPress? You can break-down satisfaction and dissatisfaction based upon skills and upon current use, and extensibility plans. It seems to me that the target is tiny business, low front-end skill people with few needs for extensibility. Concurrently there is a large trend taking place online in the blocking of ads, analytics and tracking, impacting the ability of tiny business in the content arena to market, to survive. The good intentions of that behavior are advancing the growth of large business; note Wal Mart's foray now into advertising to compete with Amazon's multi-billion dollar revenue stream from advertising. They are not hurt by the large trend that is occurring.

It will be interesting to see the outcome for Wix, SquareSpace and now Wordpress as they serve a public that is going to increasingly find it difficult to survive financially.