The bitching is because I have to support their crap. Along with the wordpress security hole of the day lottery, I have to deal with php (and it's cruft and security holes), plus wordpress constantly spamming you with "new version" with zero indication of whether it's just another code dump likely to break plugins or if it fixes zero days, yet still likely to break plugins.
Happiness skyrocketed with octopress.
edit: competent devs would issue long term releases with only security fixes backported. As it is, getting a set of plugins plus a theme working is fine, but it then requires ongoing maintenance because wordpress constantly internally churns and breakage regularly occurs, partly due to their apparently ill-specced internal api. I presume they don't do this either because of lack of engineering ability or because they want to drive people to their hosted product. Either way, it's not a good product.
Happiness skyrocketed with octopress.
edit: competent devs would issue long term releases with only security fixes backported. As it is, getting a set of plugins plus a theme working is fine, but it then requires ongoing maintenance because wordpress constantly internally churns and breakage regularly occurs, partly due to their apparently ill-specced internal api. I presume they don't do this either because of lack of engineering ability or because they want to drive people to their hosted product. Either way, it's not a good product.