In reply to Kevinjohn Gallagher.

I know that you know better than to defend the stupid remarks of someone that thinks that akismet in wordpress is a new development.

As for the rest, yes I know better then you and I am not ashamed of that.
In the level of clients that you used to have (still have I hope) it is your job to explain to them the implications of every design decision you make in term of UX and cost of maintenance. If you have done that and they approved the plan than you were consenting adults and there is no need to blame anyone for anything. At his level wordpress is just another web development library with a default admin interface you can use or rewrite if you need something better.

I wrote the code and admined a top 2k US Alexa site, and one of the things I have done is to strip out all the plugins they had before me (yoast was the exception as it is so bloated I was just too afraid to screw up the removal). I didn't upgrade any fucking plugin or core before doing a QA and then running A/B test on the post upgrade compare to the pre upgrade.

And as for you quote of me, I think it proves that I am not a hard core fan, so not sure where did you got that from. It is just a stupid code that can be used to do some work, nothing I get an orgasm from. (I am a fan of the mission but that is different than doing client work)