WordPress support is one thing: the gazillion plugins supporting it - yet another! Although WordPress is the biggest pile of spaghetti running on a huge share of servers today, it's much better than the plethora of low-quality and barely maintained plugins and themes rotting in conflicts between each other! I spent hundreds of dollars buying plugins for a nonprofit website and every time when there's an issue, the recommendation is: disable all other plugins and switch to the standard theme! Instead of investing more effort into this, they should rewrite it using a modern PHP web framework or, let's say, TypeScript.
I'm not saying that - I am fully aware of the Laravel ecosystem and the rest of the popular frameworks. They should start one from scratch - given the footprint of WordPress, it's not a stupid idea. Also, themes should stop being code!
You should check out Winter CMS, we're built on top of Laravel and themes are powered by Twig - no heavy PHP code allowed in themes. Instead, complex logic is handled by "Components" that are provided by plugins.
It's extremely powerful and developer friendly (no more "custom post types" for every record type under the sun), definitely my preferred way to build websites that WordPress would normally handle.
