I like using WordPress for the most part. I’m not being snarky or anything. I genuinely enjoy working with WordPress over other publishing platforms. My issues are mainly with plugins not conforming to best practices. Why should I have to dig into code to call out image alts? I have to do that with my content enough as it is. It’s frustrating. Like most people I genuinely want to have a clean beautiful website that ranks well. It’s little bits of thing I’m powerless to change like tags. All the SEO sites say I have too many h2 tags, but that’s how WordPress structures tagging as I understand it. Other times I can’t get schema to work.
Even with all that, I still outrank my nearest keyword competitors 2-1 and climbing without paid search or adequate social sharing.

Not bad for a dyslexic former street kid finding a purpose in life.