They're asserting you can do that stuff yourself now.
> There is a reason why NASA, White House, Techcrunch, Reuters et al are all on Wordpress and any of the 'better' cmses out there.
First, those are large orgs. Most WP sites are not that large or complicated.
Second, would those orgs use WP if they started fresh today? Or something like OP's setup?
The organizations cited chose WordPress years ago.
Choosing to stay on it is, at least sometimes, going to be a matter of large institutional inertia.
Large enterprises are the last to move on things like this.
The Federal government is very large bureaucratic organization with more inertia than most. (And probably long-term contracts in this realm!)
They're asserting you can do that stuff yourself now.
> There is a reason why NASA, White House, Techcrunch, Reuters et al are all on Wordpress and any of the 'better' cmses out there.
First, those are large orgs. Most WP sites are not that large or complicated.
Second, would those orgs use WP if they started fresh today? Or something like OP's setup?