As a long term Wordpress user and former front-end developer. I can find myself in the statements of many developers that Wordpress became a relic which you are criticizing in an extremely cheap way. Yeah it is used a lot on the web, yes it has a huge community. But it just doesnt fit well in the current environment on the web. To make it do modern things, you need to use so many plugins. You call it a positive that there are so many plugins available. I all it a negative, it is not really curated, there is no quality control and you dont always know what you are gonna get. In the end a vast majority of Wordpress websites are not secure. I receive reports daily from Wordfence about hack attemps, I receive daily news about new exploits for these Wordpress plugins and I have helped so many developers to fix hacked Wordpress websites. This shift in web technology made me from recommending Wordpress 3 years ago for small to mid sized businesses to now going headless with yes tools such as Storyblok, Contentful, Sanity etc. But this is the issue with your article. You compare Wordpress which is a do it all directly to a pure CMS system which doesn't manage the frontend, frontend developers in Wordpress often build through plugins etc. The power of going headless, is having a static website being populated by dynamic content running on extremely fast servers and loading it in from a CDN. The power of headless is being able to reuse that content on multiple platforms and in the end have the ability to save on development costs. Yeah the latter is not for every business. But the web became a much more complex world, users became more demanding and especially in the realm of e-commerce. I simply cannot recommend Wordpress anymore, and yeah I still could make money of it. But I want to give my customers a better product, not directly going for easy money and being stuck troubleshooting long term.

I have the feeling that long terms Wordpress supporters never kept up with the times and are stuck in 2010 when Wordpress was everything on the web. When online theme shops such as themeforest exploded. So yeah I actually did agree with the TNW article. Even if it could be viewed as biased, so could your piece.