In reply to Calum Childs.

By the feedback here, and thinking on WP Tavern as a very good barometer of what’s going on, WP should be happy with so much passion. That’s good for creation. Someone has to grab this energy and put it in the right places.

WP is an amazing tool. It’s flexible and it’s Open Source.
It has ups and downs, even in strategic decisions, but it’s part of the process.

We can keep complaining about this and that but the truth is the team=people behind WP are amazing. If something is going wrong we can contribute alerting for the fact and hope to be heard, in the middle of thousands of voices.

When we hear one of it’s main leaders saying: “Yes, I want WordPress to be the best CMS. Yes, I want this community to be vibrant and engaged.” we should feel hopeful.

Of course WP is still a product. And it’s used by “a lot” of different people. That as also to be taken into account.
It must deliver some confidence and stability.

I suppose it would also be beneffic to marketing that WP can be used in two distinct ways: as a Tool for building sites (FSE) and as a CMS.

If these two are optimized individually, the potential is huge.
I truly believe it’s possible to build websites both ways: via raw (PHP!), with a strong connection to a clean DB and via FSE. Forcing both doing the same maybe it’s too much – at least for a stable product, or for now.
And no one would be left behind – it’s important to attract but also to maintain users / developers.

Maybe it’s easier to decouple the two and have a stronger WP which doesn’t need that much maintenance?

Maybe there could be an option to install a consolidated “FSE version” or a consolidated “CMS version”?

I’m sure there are a lot of opinions and roadmaps that could be made or changed.
Always for the benefit of users & developers of WordPress!