You know what would cripple WordPress? Something most of us can't imagine: a move away from interest in blogging.

My arts organization recently farmed out our web development to a group of young artists; the site had just been set up in WP by a pro and we presumed the new group would possibly do something like change the theme and fine-tune the blog features.

Instead, fueled by their IT expert, they asserted that WP is ancient, outmoded software that is too hard to use, and they wanted to shift the entire site to a template-based free host (in this case, "Yola"). They saw no value in user accounts or commenting, and very high value in posting media clips to a template.

I don't want or need comments on the wisdom of tapping naive users for this task; but it was telling that 20-somethings with a college education and a high media IQ see WP as "your parents' Web platform."

For what it's worth, this same demo has been immersed in PowerPoints since they were 6, and Facebook always existed for them. The Web for them is what the monopoly telephone company was to many of us: it's just there.