WordPress was so afraid of being "just a blogging platform" that it intentionally kneecapped post formats. It's too bad, as being able to display links, quotes, statuses, images, videos, etc. differently than long-form blog posts would still be nice. Now everything gets a title, a date, categories and tags, and it's only the post content that changes.

The flip side of giving the user control over all this means that the user has to take control, and good luck changing themes.

It was an opportunity lost.