I began in 1998 with a HTML site I created to show my artist work. I found it was a pain to update (all these internal links to modify for each entry) so I searched for a selfhosted solution and adopted Dotclear. It was a clean and fast program but I read so much things about WordPress I decided to take a look. I was not very impressed -much heavier than Dotclear - but it managed thumbnails and featured posts and so much shiny themes. As my site was about comics and illustrations, WP won the battle. I’m quite bored with the evolution of WP but all the sites I manage are under WP, I created some WooCommerce shops and even began to play with Gutenberg as page builder. So I suppose there is no chance I quit WP in the next future.