In reply to Mike Schinkel.

IIRC 80% of wordpress sites run insecure versions of PHP. If your logic of "security problem" always becomes "A site is owned" then 80% of WP sites would have been owned right now. Since this is not even remotely close to happen we know empirically that running an old PHP version is not the worst thing a site might do and we know from researches that bad old plugins and themes are the main cause for security breaches. Upgrading to 7.0 will not make those plugins more secure then they are.

And again "proper".... When a brand sells me a milk for a week, I will be very upset if it will sell me water in the same package the next week just because someone said that cow milk is bad for humans. People know what is proper and what is cheating just because you can't get your way by "winning an argument", which is why you get all the negative reactions.