the positive [+] always first: wordpress devs have managed to keep updates high quality (in 5 years time nothing was broken after update) this only can be acchieved with massive quality (use case) testing (writing a lot of tests, doing a lot of tests) amazingly good job, that is incredibly difficult for a software that complex, that is heavily modded by 3rd party plugins, themes, vendors
the ease of use and the amount of themes is what usually brings users to wordpress
the negative [-]: wordpress hosted or self hosted NEEDS a 100% reliable auto self update mechanism 😬🤔 if that is not given, all self hosted longterm wordpress installations are at risk (maybe that’s on purpose?) to be compromosed long term 🙁 (also damaging wordpress reputation)
so if the web dev user wants a almost unhackable website… convert to static X-D
then it’s the webhosters task to keep apache2 + php (the LAMP stack) updated
the positive [+] https://www.hetzner.com/ is doing a great job as webhoster in many regards.
the negative [-] there is no option to “always use the latest version when it becomes available” (aka another auto update function missing 🙁 so the user has to manually check into konsoleh and select the latest php version when it becomes available, this is not sustainable, 90% of users will forget, exposing their websites to possibly to web based security risks or being abused as spam host.
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