75% end users, 25% developers? Interesting demographic perspective Jeffro. You live so close to the developer world. I feel like the actual WP user-base is about 99.7% end-users, people who have never contributed to development (and in most cases never even thought about it). I know I've installed WP for a dozen clients and friends, none developers including me.

WP should be geared towards helping everyone publish their own content online, as easily as writing an email (with ownership of their own database and control of your codebase & design, instead of submitting your content to Facebook, Live Journal, Blogger, etc).

Great credit (many thanks) to the developers for making this possible. I've always thought the developers' intent was to make WP simple and accessible to all, for the sake of freedom in being able to publish anything & still own your own content (Word) and means of publication (Press), instead of signing your stuff over to a 3rd party website where you'd have no control and no recourse if they sold-out, changed the policy, or went out of business.

Provocative blog post, WP Tavern!