Great article Sarah. It perfectly represents the state of WordPress right now. I saw a really bright future for WP when they launched the WP Rest API but all that kinda deflated right at the end. The Rest API stayed kind of stagnant while they decided to double down back on the very thing the Rest API seemed to be trying to move WordPress away from: becoming a simple Visual Composer CMS and a Squarespace competitor, instead of a CMS/App-framework for everyone.

Sadly, I don't think there's any coming back now, so I hope some other project takes over and fills that hole. I'm quite interested in headless CMSs, which seem to be getting a lot of traction, but none of them have less than a long way to get where WordPress is in term of features, let alone community support.

We'll see how we manage content in the years to come, but seems like, for the more tech inclined, WordPress won't be there, at least not so much as it's been all those years. We'll also see if that means a movement in the dev community too, since they are the ones most interested in the API way of doing things, and not so much in the Squarespace one. If that's the case, maybe Matt Mullenweg should learn a thing or two from Steve Ballmer: Developers! Developers! Developers! :D