In reply to Scott.

My 2 cents,
WordPress is easy to install if you know how to do it.
The basic user even if they do know how, probably shouldn't or wouldn't know how to do it and follow proper best practices.

So if that's the standard you're setting then yes, it's not easy to setup.

But, please expand on your 99% can't develop a proper website with WordPress. What is your credentials for making such a extravagant claim ?

Are you comparing WordPress with Squarespace, Wix, or Shopify ?
Or, are you comparing it with Magento, Joomla or Drupal ?

Regardless though, could you please highlight the difficulties in WordPress. Or is it simply that you would like to remove the middle man (developers and agencies ) and have the user alone "develop" their sites ? Is that the issue ?

Again though if you don't like WordPress so much, there are other options, you don't HAVE to keep using it.

The only thing you really have to do is breathe.