@Ted Clayton - Alright, I had my little cry.

Then I did what mighta been done before I got all melodramatic. I took a refresher-tour through the WordPress MySQL database tables.

Truth is, I have avoided doing this for awhile, because innovations in WP looked like they would need new tables & relationships .... this proliferation being "a" if the "the" primary malady [eg, Original Sin] of conventional, Content Management System CMS website software.

What a pleasant surprise & relief, to find that my fears were unfounded, and WordPress is actually still using the same mere eleven database tables that it had in years past. Several of these are NOT for the Content, but for stuff like Users & Options, and for optional material like Comments & Links (which many savvy applications of WP can ignore/won't use ... and if we wanted to fork an even simpler, non-bloggy WP, could completely remove).

[And if we do want a new database table, as we very often do, we install these separately with a plugin, and keep our grubby fingers off the core tables.]

So my concerns that Types, Formats and Taxonomies, etc, reflected an abandonment of the original simple & transparent design of WordPress' foundations, were wrong.

Instead, these names are just new names for the old rock-solid Content data elements ... spritzed-up with graffiti spray-paint & glitter nail-polish. The seemingly-new stuff is just new ways of looking at & new terms for, the same-ol' good-ol' stuff.

Under the hood, WordPress remains exactly what I like to see.