I always wonder, at what point is it easier to just ditch Wordpress completely and instead spend the time to add an admin theme that looks & behaves like it for familiarity of users, and maybe add whatever magic functions your favorite framework might be missing.<p>This isn't a critique, I use WP intensively, and we heavily modify and extend it as well, but the familiarity of the team (in dev, seo and content) is pretty much the only selling point, because we shut down most extra features (feeds, rpc, json-rpc, emojis, gutenberg, comments etc etc etc), use a complex varnish-setup, do image optimization etc outside of it and most plugins aren't really good, so we roll out something custom instead. Getting rid of it it isn't an option for us because we're so committed and have built so much custom stuff around it, but with a green field, I'm not sure.