I got rid of Wordpress about 4 years ago - what a relief! True, "you can do almost anything", there are plug-ins for everything. Problem is, many of them eventually break with the endless Wordpress updates. My site got more complex over the years and that became a real problem.
Finally dumped it completely and my site is now about 16,000 lines of hand-written code (it's a complex gps/mapping web app). So much happier now, and no longer paying for those plug-in subscriptions. The good thing about the experience is that it inspired me to learn a lot more about writing javascript code, which took me much farther than I ever could have gone with Wordpress.
Of course, it really depends on the nature of your site. If you can use more or less "plain vanilla" Wordpress, that would probably be fine. But the third-party plugins and themes really don't age well in my experience.
And there are so many Wordpress vulnerabilities. My logfile is still full of hackers endlessly probing for them. You really need to keep everything updated if you use it. Just saw this story last night, for example.
WP Automatic plugin patched, but release notes don't mention the critical fix.
arstechnica.com
