I took a 12 years hiatus from WP and just went back into actively using it since a couple of weeks now.
The shift went clearly into massive plugins that frees you from all the grunt work that was necessary 10+ years ago.
To me as someone who once wrote plugins on my own, had to develop themes totally by hand using the infamous WP loop etc. this is like going from command line to drag and drop UI.
I took a 12 years hiatus from WP and just went back into actively using it since a couple of weeks now.
The shift went clearly into massive plugins that frees you from all the grunt work that was necessary 10+ years ago.
To me as someone who once wrote plugins on my own, had to develop themes totally by hand using the infamous WP loop etc. this is like going from command line to drag and drop UI.
WP is a OS and Divi, ThriveTheme etc. took over.
I like it, it saves a ton of time.